In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a wireless controller, which may include a byte stream parser to receive a stream of data from one or more wireless devices and parse the stream of data to identify a first data packet associated with a first channel identifier associated with a trusted application, and a cryptographic engine coupled to the byte stream parser to encrypt a payload portion of the first data packet in response to the identification of the first data packet associated with the first channel identifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.