A protocol analyzer at the utilities operations center shows a supposed enterprise staff SSID offering open authentication instead of 802.1X. What eavesdropping-related condition has been detected?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
If the “secure staff” SSID is hanging a wide-open sign, anyone can listen—and that is the eavesdropping jackpot. The analyzer just caught a misconfig that makes confidentiality fail by default. Fix auth and encryption; do not celebrate open mode on staff.
Full Explanation
Detecting eavesdropping risk includes identifying SSIDs that advertise open or weak security when policy requires Enterprise authentication and modern encryption. Protocol analysis revealing unexpected open authentication on a staff SSID is a high-severity misconfiguration indicator. Remediation restores 802.1X and strong ciphers so passive capture is no longer trivial.