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8.3 Device Categorization
Properly classifying and categorizing access points and clients can help suppress unnecessary unauthorized access point
alarms, and allow an administrator to focus on alarms on devices actually behaving in a suspicious manner. An intruder
with a device erroneously authorized could potentially perform activities that harm your organization.
Authorized access points and clients are generally known to you and conform with your organization's security policies.
Unauthorized devices are those detected as interoperating within the network, but have not approved. These devices
should be filtered to avoid jeopardizing the data managed by the access point and its connected clients. Use the Device
Categorization screen to apply neighboring and sanctioned (approved) filters on peer access points operating in this access
point's radio coverage area. Detected client MAC addresses can also be filtered based on their classification in this access
point's coverage area.
To categorize access points and clients as authorized or unauthorized:
1. Select
Configuration
The Device Categorization screen lists the device authorizations defined thus far.
2. Select
Add
to create a new Device Categorization policy,
to remove obsolete policies from the list of those available.
>
Security
>
Device
Categorization.
Figure 8-14 Device Categorization screen
Security Configuration 8 - 29
Edit
to modify the attributes of a selected policy or
Delete
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