Wireless technologies are recently introduced in the
Spanish universities and these technologies have supposed an
improvement of the services offered to the users mainly, in the
aspect of mobility within the campus, and the mobility between
different institutions. Since, the conventional protection
techniques used with Wi-Fi networks [1], 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 paneuropean
EduRoam (Education Roaming) initiative. Eduroam, is a
RADIUS-based infrastructure that uses 802.1X security
technology to allow for inter-institutional roaming. Being part
of eduroam allows 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
