I agree that these devices may be a security risk, especially if these are connected to the wired network as well. Also they use airtime, which can result in less performance/throughput.
The big question is if you can do something about it... if this is a university campus dorms facility, you can't really control who is bringing in what. If these devices are managed by yourself or your organization, you could chase all of them down and disable wireless or disable the ad-hoc on each of these devices, which is a lot of work. For a military organization, you probably will chase down these devices, and completely remove them from a network, for residential or dorms, you probably will ignore or accept the risk. In between you can address the 'low hanging fruit', so the devices that are easy to find and fix, and/or the devices that create the biggest risk or generate the most interference.
Would be good to see what approach others take?
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Herman Robers
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Original Message:
Sent: Oct 21, 2024 05:35 PM
From: bwoodroof
Subject: RAPIDS Detection of Wi-Fi Direct SSIDs
We already have these settings enabled. A lot of these rogues have a signal strength of -20 to -40. My main concern is interference but I'm also not sure of the security risk. Many Roku devices for example are also connected to our wired network, though RAPIDS sometimes does not detect these as the Wi-Fi Direct radio uses a locally administered MAC address. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Original Message:
Sent: Oct 21, 2024 01:57 PM
From: Gowri Amujuri
Subject: RAPIDS Detection of Wi-Fi Direct SSIDs
There's option under RPAIDs setup page to ignore Adhoc devices and ignore weaker signal strength. Instead of modifying rules, we can set this to ignore non relevant Rogues and the rules detect actual Rogues.
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Gowri Amujuri
Original Message:
Sent: Oct 21, 2024 01:21 PM
From: bwoodroof
Subject: RAPIDS Detection of Wi-Fi Direct SSIDs
RAPIDS is detecting 1,500 plus Wi-Fi Direct SSIDs on our campus. These include printers, smart TVs, Roku and other streaming devices, peripherals, and vehicles. I understand we can update our detection rules to ignore these, but would that be best practice? Is anyone trying to limit the amount of Wi-Fi Direct devices on their campus or is this now common and nothing to worry about?