Pentagon prohibits wireless, citing security reasons
Source: Network World Fusion
The Office of the Secretary of Defense has issued a memorandum that prohibits the use of many types of wireless technologies in the Pentagon and much of the Army, Navy and Air Force until the military has developed a wireless security strategy, which it expects to do with assistance from the National Security Agency.
John Stenbit, assistant secretary of Defense for Command Control and Communications and the Defense Department's chief information officer, signed the memorandum along with the OSD's acting director of administration and management, Howard Becker. Attached to the memo, which pertains to use of wireless in the military's IT networks, is a document entitled "Pentagon Area Common Information Technology Wireless Security Policy." The document elaborates on the dangers of wireless to network security and the steps the Penatgon and its service branches are taking to come to grips with it. The decision on wireless had been expected for several months.