As Wi-Fi security continues to be an issue, Intersil, Texas Instruments and Proxim are said to be backing a new security protocol.

Bill Carney: director of business development for TI's wireless networking business has said that Texas Instruments intends to ship a set of Wi-Fi chips in the coming weeks that will have the new security measures inside them.

The new Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) standard is aimed at business customers who want strong security. The WPA standard works by adding TKIP, or the temporal key integrity protocol, and the second addition is a way to authenticate users trying to log on to the networking using an extensible authentication protocol (EAP).

It will be interesting to see how many others jump on this, as it does appear to be one solution that could offer better security than we currently have.