A Rogue AP is an access point connected to your network without authorization. It is not under the management of your network administrators and does not necessarily conform to your network security policies.
The security appliance provides proactive Rogue AP Detection in the 2.4-GHz band. Rogue AP Detection is able to discover, detect, and report unauthorized access points. You can specify an authorized access point by its MAC address.
1. Click Wireless > Rogue AP Detection.
The Rogue AP Detection window opens.
2. Click On to enable Rogue AP Detection, or click Off to disable it.
3. If you enable Rogue AP Detection, all rogue access points detected by the security appliance in the vicinity of the network appear in the list of Detected Rogue Access Points. The MAC address of the detected access point is displayed. You can locate the rogue access points by their MAC addresses and monitor them until they are eliminated or authorized. Click Refresh to update the data.
4. If an access point listed as a rogue is actually a legitimate access point, you can click Grant Access to set it as an authorized access point. The granted access point is moved to the list of Authorized Access Points.
5. The security appliance will not detect the authorized access points.
• To add an authorized access point, click Add. Enter the MAC address of the access point and click OK. You can specify up to 128 authorized access points.
• To delete an authorized access point from the list, click the Delete (x) icon.
• To change the MAC address of an authorized access point, click the Edit (pencil) icon.
• To export the list of authorized access points to a file, click Export.
• To import the list of authorized access points from a file, click Import.
Choose whether to replace the existing list of Authorized Access Points or add the entries in the imported file to the list of Authorized Access Points.
– Click Replace to import the list and replace the entire contents of the list of Authorized Access Points. Click Browse to locate the file and click OK.
– Click Merge to import the list and add the access points in the imported file to the access points currently displayed in the list of Authorized Access Points. Click Browse to locate the file and click OK.
After the import is complete, the screen refreshes and the MAC addresses of the imported access points appear in the list of Authorized Access Points.