Rogue Prevention: Effective Classification

Rogue networks are usually set up by employees who bring in access points from home and are not aware of the dangers caused by improperly administered wireless. It is critical for enterprises to detect these rogues, so that they can be shut down before attackers find them.

However, not all unknown access points are rogues. Neighboring networks are common in urban areas, high-rises, multi-tenant units, and from adjacent buildings across free space. Administrators cannot afford to waste time investigating these legitimate networks that belong to others.

Meru Networks Rogue Prevention solves this by giving administrators the ability to enable a two-network connectivity requirement for rogue classification. When this is activated, an unknown access point is only classified as a rogue if connects to a known enterprise network. Once the correlation is made, Meru's AirFirewall prevents connections to the rogue while staff are alerted to its location.

Additionally, non-network access points can be manually excluded or designated as a rogue, giving administrators precise control over the security of their wireless environment.