Subject: Re: Cybersecurity czar gets tough ...
From: Buddha (buddha@gci.net)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 18:23:29 AKDT
This has already happened in the USAF and is our mandatory first stop for
IT shopping.
https://afway.af.mil (I hope this link isn't limited to just .mil or .gov)
Try the 'news' tab at the top for a description.
"...independently certified product lines."
This just means that someone in DoD has done it's own or contracted out
vulnerability testing to a company like Mitre and then publishes a report
on it's security.
BTW: We actually have units on base using wireless networks, but they're
in the new hospital which is completely shielded.
-Buddha
>
> Cybersecurity czar gets tough on corporate responsibility
>
> http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,73140,00.html
>
> ... "a new U.S. Department of Defense policy that requires all new IT
> purchases to be made from a list of independently certified product
> lines."
>
> QUESTION #1:
> Might this mean that only people w/ big budgets get on the approved
> list?
>
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