Guest network

In plain language

A separate Wi-Fi for visitors that gets them online without letting them see your business computers.

The metaphor

Like a public waiting room next to the office: visitors sit comfortably and cannot walk through to the filing cabinets.

Going deeper

How it works

It has its own name and password, apart from your staff Wi-Fi.
Devices on it can reach the internet and nothing else on your network.
Visitors, contractors and personal phones go here.
Set it up once and rotate the password occasionally.

How WILDCARD handles it

Network covers access points set up with a staff network and a guest network that cannot see each other.

In practice

A dental office offers waiting-room Wi-Fi without exposing the practice server.
A coworking tenant gives clients their own network.
A shop puts staff phones on the guest Wi-Fi.

A question owners ask

Is a guest network really necessary? If anyone who is not an employee ever asks for the Wi-Fi password, yes. A guest on your main network can reach the same shared folders and printers that you can.

Where WILDCARD handles this

Network

Firewall managed and monitored
Switches kept current
On-prem Active Directory auth

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