Your branch office AP is configured with WPA2-Personal, and you have decided that CWTS4me is a good passphrase. You have also configured your laptop with the same passphrase, which is used by the access point to validate the laptop’s identity when it attempts to connect to the WLAN. What is this process of identity validation called?
A. Affiliation
B. Association
C. Authentication
D. Activation
E. Accounting