Honeypot APs are unauthorized APs advertising your SSID. A malicious hacker might be trying to spoof your login screen to capture your password. This is obviously a security risk and should be monitored. Detection of Honeypot APs can prevent such threats to your network and is enabled by default under Site Settings. Mist AP’s also...
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Security and Rogue AP Detection
Rogue APs are any APs that share your same wired network, but are unknown to your Organization. Clients connected to any of the Rogue APs are defined as Rogue Clients. To view detected Rogue APs, navigate to Network > Security and select the Threats tab. Click on any of the Rogue SSIDs to see a...
In addition to the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radios, our Mist APs also contain a third radio dedicated to scanning. This radio is used for detecting Rogue, Neighbor, and Honeypot APs on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio bands. This means that regardless of which radios you have enabled on your AP (2.4...