For Federal Computer Week, Matthew French writes: DOD wireless policy looks to the future.
...Directive 8100.2 updates a 2-year-old policy intended to prevent wireless networks from becoming easy access points for hackers looking to access DOD systems and data. The new policy, which covers the use of wireless networks inside any DOD facility, primarily defines a baseline encryption standard to which anyone using wireless technology inside a department facility must adhere.
According to Navy Capt. Sheila McCoy, team leader for information assurance in the Navy Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer, said the goal was to outline DOD's immediate concerns with wireless technology and allow the services to determine how best to address them.
...One of the department's priorities was to develop a policy with some shelf life, she said. "We knew there was no way we could get all of the latest technology into the instruction and keep it up-to-date by the time we went to press."
The solution was to develop a knowledge management process through which users could exchange ideas and information about the capabilities of wireless technology and security concerns and solutions...
K-Collector Topics: Goals Ideas Knowledge Management outlining Security Writing