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02-08-2010, 02:48 PM
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It's not the Mom & Pop's that have the problem meeting requirement 11.1. They typically only have a couple of locations at most, so using a wireless scanner around those is no big deal.
It is the middle market retailers that have tens or even hundreds of locations that have a problem. Those sorts of organizations typically have an IT staff that can manage the suggestions in the blog post. They also will have the sort of standards necessary to minimize the number of changes that might be required. I know of a large retailer (almost a thousand locations) that uses this approach and manages it with various network monitoring and configuration management tools. And they have wireless in their retail locations but it does not handle cardholder data, only inventory management and customer service applications. Is it a pain at times? You bet. However, they do not have a wireless networking problem because they have great control over their network.
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02-17-2010, 07:24 AM
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Since I recently acquired an iPOD Touch 3rd Gen, I was playing around with an app called "WiFi Get" where you can 'tag' any working wifi and I suppose it goes to a central repository where it remembers "where" the location is for up to 20 miles of wherever you are...
This may be a good supplementary tool to use and a cheap way of checking for rogue APs in your area - in particular, your network. Just a thought.
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