Alas! On page 5 of the UniFi Secure HD AP datasheet was this text with the ol’ asterisk footnote: Especially when the UniFi Secure HD AP contains a dedicated radio that “Constantly monitors and protects against threats” as displayed on the website.įeeling my electrical engineering roots tugging at me, I had to dig deeper to see if there was some kind of technical detail footnote could explain away why the dedicated security radio inside the UAP-AC-SHD appeared to be mostly ineffective at stopping major Wi-Fi hacks. However if you’re not a security expert or if you’re using a Ubiquiti access point right now, you might be a bit shocked. If you’re a cyber security expert, you’re likely not surprised at these findings as most Wi-Fi equipment makers have put security on the back burner for years mostly because the general market doesn’t have the exposure to how severe of a problem Wi-Fi hacking is and therefore isn’t top of mind to most buyers. Note the blue columns show the UAP-AC-SHD operating alone and the red columns show it when a WatchGuard AP125 is added to the network to protect the UAP-AC-SHD from Wi-Fi hacks.
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Results are seen in the table below and full test details can be downloaded here. The UAP-AC-SHD also failed to automatically prevent all six threats. The UAP-AC-SHD was only able to automatically detect one of the six threats – the Evil Twin AP – and failed to automatically detect the other five.
Thinking of how exposed a business would be to eavesdropping, credential theft, and web history/email theft if attackers were to hack past a UniFi access point, Wi-Fi professionals at Miercom, recently tested Ubiquiti’s UniFi Secure HD access point (AP) to determine if it could automatically detect and prevent the six known Wi-Fi threats. Regardless of which viewpoint you align to, the number of businesses with Ubiquiti UniFi access points around the world is impressive and therefore a prime target for cyber criminals as evidenced by vulnerability disclosed last year.
Others would say the low-price leader concept has worked and put the UniFi brand on the map alongside networking names like Cisco Meraki.
Every strategy has its pluses and minuses and some would say Ubiquiti’s low-price leader concept swung the pendulum too far, reducing their own ability to re-invest profits into their research and development department. Ubiquiti, a global networking technology company came onto the mainstream marketplace beginning in 2005 with a clever idea of offering products at low prices to mass markets guiding channel players to monetize their services instead of the hardware.