Patent ID: 7322044

Claim:
A policy violation detection and enforcement system for use in a wireless network, the system comprising: a) a system data store (SDS) capable of storing one or more designations of wireless network attributes of wireless network policy and configuration data associated with the one or more designations, wherein the wireless network attributes comprise wireless channel settings, authentication settings, encryption settings, SSID broadcast settings, and rate settings; b) a system processor comprising one or more processing elements, wherein the system processor is in communication with the SDS and wherein the one or more processing elements are programmed or adapted to: i) detect a wireless network policy violation of a device, wherein the wireless network policy violation comprises a deviation from a set of one or more wireless network attributes associated with the policy violation detected; and ii) trigger an automated corrective action responsive to detecting the policy violation, wherein the corrective action is based upon the policy violation detected and the set of wireless network attributes associated with the policy violation detected, and wherein the corrective action is configured to modify settings of the device in order for the device to operate according to the set of one or more wireless network attributes associated with the policy violation detected.