He quickly changed the credentials, pushed the new config, and watched the LED turn solid green. The AP roared to life.
Access Granted.
Just as he was about to close the session, he noticed something odd. A single, uninvited MAC address had been sniffing the AP’s management VLAN for the past 17 minutes. Someone else had tried to use that same default password tonight.
He leaned back in his chair, staring at the terminal. Never trust the defaults. Never.
He SSH’d into the AP’s failsafe console. The terminal blinked. admin Password: admin