February 17th, 2011
Open Source WLAN Controller I was searching to see if an open source WLAN controller existed and ran into a CWNP Blog posting by @DevinAkin from 2007 that I have quoted below. Have you ever seen DD-WRT? How about SVEASOFT? Perhaps WiFi-Box? No, well they’ve been around for quite a long time, and they are [...]
Filed under: WLAN Policy, WLAN Security, WLAN Site Survey, WLAN Tools
December 19th, 2009
DoD Commercial WLAN Technologies Instruction 8420.01 The US Department of Defense (DOD) released a commercial wireless local area network (WLAN) devices, systems, and technologies Instruction (NUMBER 8420.01) that implements the DoD Directive 8100.2 related to commercial wireless that was released in 2004 and updated in 2006 [DoD Instruction Number 8420.01]. DoDD 8100.2 Use of Commercial [...]
Filed under: WLAN Policy, WLAN Security
September 28th, 2009
BridgeChecker v1.2 Available for Download BridgeChecker Note: Link has been updated to v1.3 download. BridgeChecker User Guide This version has several new features that make the program much more flexible. Please see the BridgeChecker User Guide for instructions on how to take advantage of the new features. New Features in BridgeChecker v1.2 Custom NIC selection [...]
Filed under: WLAN Policy, WLAN Security, WLAN Tools
March 4th, 2008
Navy Wireless LAN Policy Like Army’s Wireless LAN Policy, Navy’s guidelines for deploying wireless LAN technologies are outlined in documents developed and distributed by the Department of the Navy (DON) and other DoD organizations. Below is a list of documents related to using commercial wireless LAN technologies in unclassified networks. SECNAV Instruction 5239.3A 5239.3A, released [...]
Filed under: WLAN Policy
February 19th, 2008
Army Wireless LAN Policy US Army’s guidelines for deploying wireless LAN technologies is outlined in documents developed and distributed by Army and other DoD organizations. Below is a list of documents related to using commercial wireless LAN technologies in unclassified networks. DoDD 8100.2 Use of Commercial Wireless Devices, Services, and Technologies in the Department of [...]
Filed under: WLAN Policy
February 15th, 2008
NSA – National Security Agency The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is America’s cryptologic organization. It coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. government information systems and produce foreign signals intelligence information. A high technology organization, NSA is on the frontiers of communications and data processing. It is also one of the [...]
Filed under: WLAN Policy, WLAN Security