METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SECURE NETWORK ACCESS

摘要

In a hotspot Wi-Fi network (15), users (3a, 3b, 3c) can access the Internet from a variety of access points (5). The users' credentials are centrally authenticated within the network core to ensure they are allowed on the hotspot network. To improve security and provide selective access, a further authenticator function (17a, 17b) in the network manages access to private and/or restricted network resources (19a, 19b). In particular, a user is authenticated to the hotspot network based on a first set of authentication credentials and the user and the user's device are authenticated to the private and/or restricted network resources based on a second set of authentication credentials.