New outdoor APs for parks still ship with vendor default admin passwords. What baseline hygiene is mandatory before production use?
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Short Explanation
Factory passwords are public knowledge dressed up as convenience. Change them—uniquely—before park APs see real traffic. Matching stickers and one citywide default are gifts to anyone with a ladder and a laptop.
Full Explanation
Removing default credentials is fundamental WLAN hardening. Unique, vault-managed administrative passwords reduce credential stuffing and lateral admin abuse across the AP fleet. Leaving, publishing, or globally reusing defaults is a common cause of infrastructure compromise.