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Accordingly, both manufacturers have taken steps to avoid disproportionately compromising user convenience. A hotel guest, for example, whose personal data appears in the guest registry, certainly has more convenience than risk to expect when a network operator is aware of their presence. They likely do not wish to log in to the WiFi again every day. The same is true for patients in hospitals, students and teachers on campus, and employees on company premises, or in their own home networks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accordingly, Android decided to \u003Cem>mask the MAC address\u003C\u002Fem>—meaning the hardware address is not displayed—\u003Cem>while maintaining the simulated address per network SSID\u003C\u002Fem>. This avoids experiences that impair user convenience while providing little security gain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation looked different at Apple prior to the rollout. 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However, we would be well advised to prepare for the possibility that the situation may change sooner or later, requiring iPhone users to log in again every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apple’s support pages describe \u003Cem>how this behavior can be disabled.\u003C\u002Fem> This allows users to decide, for each saved network, whether a randomized address or the device’s actual MAC address should be used: \u003Ca title=\"Link to the Apple website\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fsupport.apple.com\u002Fde-de\u002FHT211227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"Link zur Apple Webseite\">https:\u002F\u002Fsupport.apple.com\u002Fde-de\u002FHT211227\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone reminded of the early 2010s is not mistaken. As early as \u003Cem>iOS 8\u003C\u002Fem>, the topic of MAC address masking was widely covered in the trade press. Moreover, the \u003Cstrong>Hotspot 2.0\u003C\u002Fstrong> standard from the WiFi Alliance, once hailed as a “\u003Cem>brave new hotspot world\u003C\u002Fem>” with a seamless connectivity experience, is making headlines once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca title=\"Information on Hotspot 2.0\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ip-insider.de\u002Fwas-ist-hotspot-20-hs2-passpoint-a-943234\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"Info zu Hotspot 2.0\">Hotspot 2.0 (HS2) \u002F Passpoint\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>, as a standard from the \u003Cem>WiFi Alliance\u003C\u002Fem>, was and continues to be frequently promoted as a solution for seamless connectivity; however, it was originally conceived for carriers and mobile network operators, rather than for operators looking to provide their customers with added value in the form of guest WiFi and establish a \u003Cem>customer touchpoint\u003C\u002Fem>. The use case of a guest arriving at a hotel without a regionally valid mobile contract (such as an international traveler) was not considered in those early scenarios.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, the technology only works if the hardware supports it. Primarily US-oriented manufacturers have Passpoint-capable hardware in their portfolio, but even then not consistently across their entire product line, meaning implementation can prove quite challenging depending on the environment: Access points must be \u003Cem>HS2 Passpoints\u003C\u002Fem>, which means they must obtain or have obtained \u003Cstrong>certification from the WiFi Alliance\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Even with reputable manufacturers, this is often only available in conjunction with the WiFi controller. The technology also requires client-side support, which is likewise not universally present on today’s mainstream smartphones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>What does this mean for IACBOX operators?\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Since we at \u003Cem>Asteas\u003C\u002Fem> know all too well how diverse the landscape of IACBOX operators is out in the field, we are preparing as a manufacturer for all eventualities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>The IACBOX will therefore support the Hotspot 2.0 standard\u003C\u002Fem>, ensuring that everyone for whom configuring the network accordingly makes sense can rely on their familiar portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a precaution, we will deactivate the information and the prepared pop-up screen, but we will retain them. 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Apple now appears to share this view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n",{"quicklinks":487},true,"en_US",{"de_DE":490},{"locale":491,"id":492,"slug":493,"post_title":494,"href":495},"de_DE",8926,"apple-google-und-die-mac-adressen-randomisierung","Apple, Google und die MAC-Adressen 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For serious security incidents or vulnerabilities, we ask you to use PGP encryption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– Our homepage now also provides a security.txt file: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iacbox.com\u002F.well-known\u002Fsecurity.txt\">https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iacbox.com\u002F.well-known\u002Fsecurity.txt\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cbr \u002F>– PGP Key: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iacbox.com\u002F.well-known\u002Fsecurity-pub.asc\">https:\u002F\u002Fwww.iacbox.com\u002F.well-known\u002Fsecurity-pub.asc\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch3>Vulnerability Disclosure Policy\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\u003Cp>We have published a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) describing our preferred \u003Cstrong>Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD)\u003C\u002Fstrong> process. 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Although the SBOM obligation does not come into effect until 2027, it has been an integral part of our software development for some time now in order to ensure effective vulnerability management.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch3>Contact\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\u003Cp>Stay secure and up to date with IACBOX Software Maintenance! 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They have a scaling problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New locations are established. New customers are added. New projects successfully go live. However, the real challenge only begins afterward: How can an increasing number of mutually independent organizations be operated efficiently over the long term without administrative and operational overhead growing at the same rate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is precisely the question currently facing managed service providers, internet service providers, hotel groups, educational institutions, and multi-site enterprises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>The Real Challenge Begins After Go-Live\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Today, a new deployment is rarely the issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A site is set up, the captive portal is configured, and commissioning is completed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real work only begins afterward: users must be managed, software updated, policies adjusted, and support tickets resolved. Each additional customer or site brings its own requirements, responsibilities, and processes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With ten installations, this overhead is hardly noticeable. With a hundred, it dominates everyday operations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>A Pattern Repeating Across Industries\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>In recent years, we have encountered this pattern time and again across numerous discussions with partners and customers—regardless of whether they operate in managed services, education, or hospitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A municipal data center manages approximately 50 schools. Each school requires its own user management, custom settings, and the ability to operate autonomously. At the same time, security policies must be enforced centrally, and visibility across all sites must be maintained. A typical case, not an isolated one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hotel group faces a similar challenge. Each hotel needs to operate autonomously without sacrificing centralized standards and shared management.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Managed service providers experience the exact same trend, only in an intensified form. Those managing ten customers know every configuration in detail and calculate their overhead per customer accordingly. When that same provider grows to fifty customers, it is not just the number of installations that increases, but also update cycles, support tickets, and escalation paths. The original calculation per customer no longer holds up: revenue grows linearly, while internal overhead scales faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is precisely at this point that margins begin to shrink for many providers, even as the business appears to grow from the outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The industries differ. The pattern remains the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Growth Changes the Operating Model\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>In response, many organizations invest in more powerful infrastructure, new features, or additional staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far less often is it questioned whether the operating model itself still fits the organization’s scale. This is where the primary bottleneck typically emerges: when every new customer adds administrative overhead, it is not just the business that grows—complexity increases as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hiring more staff may alleviate this bottleneck in the short term. In the long run, however, what scales most is administrative overhead, not the business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Why Multi-Tenant Is Moving Into Focus\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>As organizations expand, a fundamental question arises with increasing urgency: does every organization really need to operate its own management platform? Or is there a more efficient way to manage many segregated organizations centrally without compromising their autonomy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is precisely why Multi-Tenant is gaining importance—not as a new buzzword or short-lived trend, but as an answer to operational requirements driven by the growth of modern IT organizations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For managed service providers, internet service providers, hotel groups, educational institutions, and multi-site enterprises, Multi-Tenant is increasingly becoming a strategic decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, the crucial question is no longer whether Multi-Tenant makes sense. It is: at what scale does the traditional operating model cease to support growth and instead become the limiting factor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>IACBOX Multi-Tenant Is in Its Final Stages\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>It is precisely to address these requirements that we are currently developing IACBOX Multi-Tenant. 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