A method, apparatus and system enable distribution and enforcement of authenticated network connection policy. Specifically, in one embodiment, a wireless network may admit manageability cores (“MCs”) that include a manageability feature set, i.e., devices that do not implement the full wireless network feature set defined by IEEE standards. In one embodiment, the MCs and backend policy decision point (“PDP”) may agree upon connection policy information for the MCs, and a may utilize a mutually authenticated mechanism to deliver the agreed upon connection policy information to the MCs and Access Points (“Aps”).