Wireless technologies are recently introduced in the Spanish universities and that action has supposed an improvement of the services offered to the users mainly, in the aspect of mobility: within the campus, and between different institutions. Since, the conventional protection techniques used with Wi-Fi networks, like Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) are obsolete, new solutions are needed in order to ensure the adequate network protection. This communication summarizes the ambitious project developed by the University of
Cantabria in order to improve the security of the wireless network that exist in our University, and the adjust of those procedures to the pan-european EduRoam (Education Roaming) initiative. Being part of eduroam allow users visiting another institution connected to eduroam to log on to the WLAN using the same credentials (username and password) the user would use if he were at his home institution
