"The question you need to ask is if the vendor has gone through the process of going to an outside firm to verify that they meet all the regulations or can they provide some level of assurance that they meet these regulations," Conover said.

Siemens also added additional levels of security to the HiPath Wireless Advanced solution.

Rather than shutting down a port when a rogue device is detected or using a denial of service attack against a rogue AP, both of which would reduce network availability for all legitimate users, the Siemens software sends a disassociate command to a rogue AP every time a legitimate client mistakenly tries to connect to it.

The intrusion protection and prevention capabilities also secure for the first time both the radio space and the packets across the network.

Instead of using a centralized switch to manage APs, Siemens will use what it calls a thin AP architecture with a controller. The controller is a Layer 3 solution, working at the IP level. The software creates a tunnel from the AP to the controller.