diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd/defconfig b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd/defconfig
index a62bec4034..7f8e0b9eaa 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd/defconfig
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd/defconfig
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ CONFIG_IEEE80211N=y
 # IEEE 802.11ac (Very High Throughput) support
 CONFIG_IEEE80211AC=y
 
+# Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), WPA3-Personal
+CONFIG_SAE=y
+
 # Remove debugging code that is printing out debug messages to stdout.
 # This can be used to reduce the size of the hostapd considerably if debugging
 # code is not needed.