Developing a Sound Security Policy for Mobility at the Department of Defense

Wireless technology is mandatory to support new mobility requirements in the DoD. The technology has been rapidly changing over the past several years with major innovations in architectures and the creation of new compliance requirements. Furthermore, DoD directives and NIST requirements have quickly constrained the choice of vendors and mobility architectures. This has led to confusion regarding best practices for setting security policies and deployment. This white paper, while not providing exhaustive coverage of all options, has provided current best practices along with a discussion of how these practices can be implemented using different wireless architectures.