Access Point
What is Access Point?
A physical location or network device where users connect to an organization's network, requiring security controls to prevent unauthorized access.
Terms that appear alongside access point
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as access point. The number is how many controls name both.
- authentication 5 shared controls
- encryption 3 shared controls
- rogue access point 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern access point
What the standards actually require on access point
Requirements naming access point across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Wireless access points enable the use of the 802.11w amendment to protect management frames.
ISM-1335 · Wireless access points enable the use of the 802.11w amendment to protect management frame →Build physical security perimeters around people, data and systems, including a perimeter separating administrative and business areas from data storage and processing areas.
CCM-DCS-07 · Controlled Access Points →An inventory of authorized wireless access points is maintained, including a documented business justification.
11.2.2 · Authorized wireless AP inventory →Control entry at every access point using an access control system whose documented rules grant least privilege authorisations, revoke unused rights after two and six months, enforce two factor authentication for areas holding customer data, escort visitors an...
C5-PS-04 · Physical site access control →Layer IAM, resource policies, KMS grants, S3 Access Points and VPC endpoint policies to enforce least privilege access to data and prevent exfiltration.
SEC08-BP04 · Enforce access control →Article 16 requires Member States to ensure that building owners, tenants and managers can have direct access to their building data via a single secure access point, including data from the technical building systems (Article 13), the EPC databases (Article 2...
EPBD-Art.16 · Data exchange (Article 16) →Questions people ask about access point
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