ABC Company uses the wireless network for highly sensitive network traffic.

802.11w, also known as Protected Management Frames (PMF), is designed to protect specific types of 802.11 management frames such as disassociation and deauthentication frames. These frames were previously sent unencrypted and could be spoofed by attackers to disconnect clients (DoS attacks). With 802.11w, these frames are cryptographically protected, mitigating such attacks.

PMF also includes replay protection for these management frames, preventing attackers from capturing and replaying them to disrupt network connectivity.