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WBE758 onboarding Engage - Give us the ability to hide/not broadcast SSIDs
Went to go onboard a WBE758 to Netgear Engage, everything went great until I ran into the fact that there is no way to turn off "Broadcast SSID" or "Hide SSID". When you go to the web GUI for that AP...
Reading your argumentation tastes must like compliance "shopping" to me. Taking non-mitigatable risks is hardly get approved by a serious IT Security.
Putting a simple AP up with SSID broadcast disabled, some simple software for wireless data capturing - and your non-existing "advantage" is from the table. Defining a neutral SSID name is always preferred over trying to make something invisible, not adding any value. Especially not for an engineering and development network, where reasonable values for businesses, the base for economics, are generated.
We could dispute why Netgear Insight does allow disabling an SSID broadcast, while Netgear Engage does not. I'm not Netgear, but you know my answer: I expect Netgear to remove the "disable Broadcast" from Insight, too. Reason: A tool like Netgear Engage -and- Netgear Insight (both intended for customers with limited Wi-Fi and networking knowledge) should, no -must- not promote such a risky feature.
Now you have an idea from where I'm coming from,,,