WiMAX security gaps

Stan Schatt, vice-president of broadband and wireless networks with ABI Research:
"WiMAX is a lot stronger than Wi-Fi was when it first came out because people learn from Wi-Fi's mistakes," said Stan Schatt, vice-president of broadband and wireless networks with ABI Research. "[But] there are number areas of Wi-Fi that gaps have not been filled in by standards and companies have come in with their own solutions. If you look at WiMAX, some of the same situations are true, "
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"One of the things that WiMAX does is it knows there is going to be certain devices where people can't authenticate, where [they are] not going to have a browser to answer password questions. WiMAX's solution is to have a set of MAC addresses that are acceptable to the system [but] one of the problems is you can have someone spoof that MAC address, "
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"Vendors have to follow the lead of Wi-Fi vendors and partner to fill in gaps. So, if you don't have good end point security then you should partner with someone with good end point security," said Schatt. "We will see partnerships over the next two to three years. Many of the vendors are small so they are going to have to partner anyways [as they] don't have complete solutions themselves."
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"The bottom line is that WiMAX is off to a better start than Wi-Fi but there are still security gaps that require partnerships to fill. Since there are not many installations [yet], there is still time to fill in those gaps,"