Patent ID: 8095115

Claim:
A processor for executing a wireless manager to configure and secure wireless access to a network, wherein the processor is adapted to: intercept a request from a mobile device to wirelessly communicate with a network, wherein the request includes one or more physical or logical characteristics that describe a location associated with the mobile device; automatically identify a security profile having one or more security parameters that define an access zone associated with the network based on the one or more physical or logical characteristics that describe the location associated with the mobile device; automatically provision a connection profile to the mobile device based on the one or more physical or logical characteristics that describe the location associated with the mobile device, wherein the connection profile configures one or more of the physical or logical characteristics to enforce the security parameters that define the access zone; authorize the mobile device to wirelessly communicate with the network from within the access zone, wherein the security parameters that define the access zone include one or more in-house security parameters in effect if the location associated with the mobile device is within the network and one or more on-the-road security parameters in effect if the location associated with the mobile device is remote from the network; monitor the one or more physical or logical characteristics that describe the location associated with the mobile device; dynamically determine an action to invoke based on a role associated with an end user logged in to the network through the mobile device in response to the monitored physical or logical characteristics violating the security parameters that define the access zone; and invoke the dynamically determined action in response to the monitored physical or logical characteristics violating the security parameters that define the access zone.