Wireless lan (wlan) public identity federation trust architecture

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
• provide a request for a user device to access a network via an access point;
• receive respective strength ratings of a plurality of authentication methods accepted by the access point and each authentication method of the plurality of authentication methods have respective strength ratings;
• evaluate a credential strength of the user device based on a strength rating of one or more authentication methods of the plurality of authentication methods used by the user device;
• and
• access the network based on the credential strength of the user device satisfying a pre-determined threshold.

A device comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the device to:
• provide a request to access a network via an access point;
• receive respective strength ratings of a plurality of authentication methods accepted by the access point and each authentication method of the plurality of authentication methods have respective strength ratings;
• evaluate a credential strength of the device based on a strength rating of one or more authentication methods of the plurality of authentication methods used by the device;
• and
• access the network based on the credential strength of the device satisfying a pre-determined threshold.