Patent ID: 11863984
Assignee: WATCHGUARD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon comprising one or more software modules that are configured to be executed on a processor in a first IEEE 802.11 access point (AP) to enable the first IEEE 802.11 AP to:
generate a security token using at least one cryptographic operation employing a secret key;
generate a beacon frame including a service set identifier (SSID) for the first IEEE 802.11 AP and including the security token, the beacon frame to be broadcast as a first beacon comprising a first trusted beacon by the first IEEE 802.11 AP; and
examine content in multiple information elements (IEs) in a second beacon that is broadcast by a second IEEE 802.11 AP and received by the first IEEE 802.11 AP to detect the second beacon was broadcast by an evil twin AP.