IEEE/ISO/IEC International Standard - Telecommunications and exchange between information technology systems-Requirements for local and metropolitan area networks-Part 1AE: Media access control (MAC) security

How all or part of a network can be secured transparently to peer protocol entities that use the MAC Service provided by IEEE 802® LANs to communicate is specified in this standard. MAC security (MACsec) provides connectionless user data confidentiality, frame data integrity, and data origin authenticity.