2004 Called—It Wants Its Wireless Security Back
Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) was released in 2018. Yet, six years later, many companies still haven’t made the switch from WPA2 to WPA3. This can leave them vulnerable to attacks that can lead to network compromise, data leaks, and worse. With new Wi-Fi versions requiring WPA3 security, it’s beyond time to migrate. In this talk Allyn will discuss WPA3 technical details, outline the common components of a WPA3 migration, highlight gotchas to keep an eye out for, the ever interesting “transition mode”, and explain how WPA3 ties into Wi-Fi 7 requirements.
Allyn’s over 25 years of experience span network engineering, content acceleration and delivery, digital signage systems, and professional services delivery, and include leading multiple high-profile projects for Fortune 500 clients. Allyn has worked on a variety of engagements from presales engineering to post-sales maintenance and everything in between. Prior to joining Nexum, Allyn provided engineering and technical services for a digital signage company providing services to Fortune 50 clients. He also previously worked for a large public university and a biomedical testing company. Allyn has been responsible for almost the entire ecosystem of IT projects including customer-driven system design, global deployments, managed service customer network operations, and end systems support and troubleshooting. One of Allyn’s largest career projects was project lead on a digital menu board rollout for a leading QSR chain. The deployment consisted of installing a single system in 13,000 different locations across the U.S. in under 6 months, and involved coordinating multiple install companies, logistics teams, site contacts, and system provisioning. Other projects have included zero downtime campus network conversions, wireless network deployments, datacenter migrations, and new location network turn-ups. Allyn enjoys learning new systems and how to fit them into the IT landscape. He has worked with Juniper, Cisco, Aruba, Bay/Nortel, F5, Palo Alto, Red Hat, VMware, Packeteer, Barracuda Networks, and Blackboard CampusWide, among others. Allyn holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Computer Science and Psychology from Eastern Michigan University. He enjoys spending time with his family.
Guest Parking Information: Guest parking is available in the front of the building, and back of the building at 1080 Jordan Creek Parkway. If guest spots are full, feel free to use any space in the front lot, or the large back lot. The meeting will be held in the Executive Conference Room on the 1st floor. It’s directly in the middle of the building (you can’t miss it!)