A municipal identity provider outage suddenly breaks staff Wi-Fi logins on the Enterprise SSID. What operational dependency does that incident illustrate?
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Short Explanation
When the city IdP or RADIUS path dies, Enterprise Wi-Fi usually locks the door or limps. Build AAA availability; do not assume passwords live in AP NVRAM or that WPS saves the day.
Full Explanation
WPA-Enterprise access depends on reachable AAA—RADIUS and often upstream identity providers. Outages commonly cause authentication failures (fail-closed) or carefully designed degraded modes, so municipalities must plan redundancy and monitoring. Controllers do not generally keep all user passwords for offline accept decisions, default fail-open to unauthenticated access is unsafe, and WPS PIN caches are not an Enterprise IdP backup.