AUTOMATION FRAMEWORK FOR ROGUE ACCESS POINT MITIGATION IN IEEE 802.1X-BASED WLAN

Wi-Fi hotspot is a product of wireless network technology than can be easily found in public places such as airport, café, or shopping mall. Besides offering ease in connection, the use of wireless network technology is also raises security issue because it lies in an open or public area. There needs to be a mechanism that can control access to the wireless network to protect it from attacker or intruder. Port-based authentication system or known as IEEE 802.1X standard is a framework that provides access control to the network. But still it is possible for the attack to occur in wireless network environment protected by IEEE 802.1X, i.e. rogue Access Point (rogue AP). A rogue AP can act like authorized Access Point (authorized AP), deceiving wireless users. Therefore, it is necessary to do mitigation steps including detection and elimination of rogue AP. In this research, live forensics method is used to detect the rogue AP. Output of this research is a framework for mitigating rogue AP in an IEEE 802.1X-based Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). This framework can also be used as a basic for doing automation process to mitigate rogue AP, helping the network administrators to minimize their manual tasks for handling the rogue AP.