Patent ID: 8838812

Claim:
A method of enhancing network security of a computing system that includes a processor and an information storage device and that includes at least one physical wired network adapter and that includes at least one physical wireless network adapter, the method comprising: producing an information structure in the storage device to indicate each wired network adapter and to indicate each physical wireless network adapter included in the computing system; wherein producing the information structure includes, in response to arrival of each network adapter in the storage device, determining whether the arrived network adapter is associated with an attribute indicative of at least one of a wireless network adapter and a wired network adapter, based at least in part upon an outcome of the determination, configuring the information structure to indicate whether the arrived network adapter is a wireless network adapter or a wired network adapter; in response to detecting an arrived network adapter establishing a connection to a network, referring to the information structure to determine whether a wired network adapter identified in the information structure has established the detected network connection to a wired network; and in response to a determination that a wired network adapter included in the identified in the information structure has established the network connection to the wired network, using the processor to cause each physical wireless network adapter identified in the information structure to be disabled.