Saline-based Daz Software, incorporated in February, has just launched Wi-Fi Log-in Pro, a wireless security solution for small businesses.
Founder Donald Zick explains that Wi-Fi Log-In Pro will fill in a gap that exists in wireless security. Larger businesses have IT staff who are able to focus on managing passwords and ensuring that each network, computer and user is properly secured. Home wireless systems can use a network with a shared password. Small businesses need something in the middle: a network with managed individual credentials that does not require full-time tech support.
"Wi-Fi Log-In Pro is a stripped down and simple product for small- to medium-sized businesses that can protect their wireless users with the same types of protections," says Zick, speaking comparatively to larger, more complicated systems. "It can keep track of who connects and when they connect, manage employees – you would have to change a shared password whenever an employee left the company – on a user-by-user basis."
Zick says that the major differentiator between his products and others that are similar is its ability to use existing email credentials so that companies do not have to set up separate wireless credentials for its employees. In other words, the security can be set so that anyone with a "daz.com" extension can access the wireless system with their existing e-mail user name and password. And that makes it much easier for smaller companies without dedicated IT staff.
Wi-Fi Log-In Pro was built on a platform of existing licensed software developed by another area company, Interlink Networks. Currently, Zick is the sole employee, but he has partnered with Kramer Consulting Services, an IT customer service provider. Zick says small businesses should know how important it is to protect their network. "It's not something you ever think about, but Kramer, who provides IT services, they're able to advise, 'Yes, you do need to protect your wireless network.' It's an important partnership."
Source: Donald Zick
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh
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