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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2021
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Bangalore, IN;
Piyush Pramod Joshi, Aurangabad, IN;
Devika Mishra, Bengaluru, IN;
Shashank Jain, Bangalore, IN;
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed in an example, a gateway apparatus, including a hardware platform having a processor and a memory; a wireless network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: provide a first virtual access point (VAP) secured by an IEEE 802.1x extensible authentication protocol (EAP) enterprise security method; provide a second VAP secured by a WiFi protected access pre-shared key (WPA-PSK) method; onboard a device, comprising determining whether the device supports the EAP method, and enrolling the device with the EAP method if the device supports the EAP method; and if the device does not support the EAP method, enrolling the device with the WPA-PSK method.