CHAPTER 12Auditing WLAN and Mobile Devices

This chapter discusses two separate audits, beginning with wireless local area networks (WLAN) and then covering data-enabled mobile devices. WLAN audits include the clients, communications, access points, and operational factors that enable a WLAN on your network. Data-enabled mobile device audits include Blackberry, iPhone, Droid, and similar data-enabled devices and the infrastructure that supports them. The following topics are discussed:

• The background of WLAN and mobile device technologies

• Essential auditing issues for these technologies

• Key technical steps and suggestions regarding how to approach the technologies

• Operational steps necessary to keep these technologies operating efficiently ...

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