Windows phone security on wireless networks

I am a post-doc at large medical center, and requested access to our secure wireless network due to the nature of my work. I was told by our IT support desk analysts that Windows
Phone is not supported at our medical center (at all), because Windows phones are "too insecure to put on our network." Because of this, I either have to get rid of my brand new Windows Phone to get an android or I will never be allowed to have access
to the secure Wi-Fi as necessary for my job. Any thoughts or suggestions? This seems to be a serious limitation of Windows Phone.

Your support desk is outright lying to you. There is no issue with Windows Phone security on wireless networks, they just don't want to support your phone. It might be possible that Windows Phone doesn't support the particular kind of wireless encryption
that your org uses, but I'm pretty sure that was all solved with Windows Phone 8.
In fact, Windows Phone is more secure in some ways because unlike iOS and Android, you cannot override security certificate problems.

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an ms windows
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Click on the blue Star Icon below if my advice has helped you or press the 'Accept As Solution' link if I solved your problem..

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I have a network with both macs an PCs. I can only make the PCs able to join the network if I use WEP 40 bit security. With WEP 126 bit and WPA the PCs are not able to connect. I think you should be able to use WPA, but then you have to use a password of an exact numbers of characters (I think 13, but I am not sure). I would go for WEP 40 if I were you.
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