diff --git a/components/mlme/dispatcher/inc/cfg_mlme_acs.h b/components/mlme/dispatcher/inc/cfg_mlme_acs.h
index 0184341107b8..eeb412a5ba31 100644
--- a/components/mlme/dispatcher/inc/cfg_mlme_acs.h
+++ b/components/mlme/dispatcher/inc/cfg_mlme_acs.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2012-2018 The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2012-2019 The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for
  * any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
  * acs_policy - External ACS policy control
  * @Min: 0
  * @Max: 1
- * @Default: 0
+ * @Default: 1
  *
  * Values are per enum hdd_external_acs_policy.
  *
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
 
 #define CFG_EXTERNAL_ACS_POLICY CFG_INI_BOOL( \
 		"acs_policy", \
-		0, \
+		1, \
 		"External ACS Policy Control")
 
 #define CFG_ACS_ALL \