DOD Mobile Security Plan: Back to the Drawing Board
A newly released Department of Defense Mobility Strategy Memo lays out comprehensive approach to enabling a mobile workforce – one that differs radically from a flawed plan that was developed over a five-year period by the National Security Agency (NSA), costing millions of taxpayer dollars, only to be determined inadequate and set aside.
The scrapped plan for developing secure mobile communications for intelligence and defense purposes, dubbed the Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME-PED) relied on “a hardware-centric, circuit-switched approach to security, which renders it obsolete in today's 4G (and beyond) mobile-enabled world,” according to an article today by CIO’s Jason Bloomberg.
“The newly released DoD Mobility Strategy Memo lays out an entirely different approach to enabling a mobile workforce,” Bloomberg writes. “Instead of the traditional ‘dump money on the problem’ route that SME-PED took, this memo details a mobility strategy that focuses more on empowering people than on restricting communications.”
Click here to read about the five major take-aways in the new DOD mobile security memo.
One component to US Federal IT's current mobile security policies today include the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2, or more commonly known as FIPS 140-2, is a security standard dealing specifically with crypotography. The specification is issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
