DoD 8100.2 Compliance

What is DoD 8100.2?
The Department of Defense Directive 8100.2 (DoD 8100.2) defines the security policies for the use of wireless technologies within the DoD Global Information Grid. The main purpose of this directive is to protect DoD computer networks from the security vulnerabilities introduced via wireless networks. It was issued April 14, 2004 and went into effect immediately.

How do organizations comply with DoD 8100.2?
All wireless communication must be encrypted end-to-end; it cannot be decrypted at unsecured access points. Furthermore, emerging and future wireless protocols need to be protected as well.

Wireless infrastructure and security technology must be FIPS 140-2 validated and must use robust standards-based authentication and encryption methods. Wireless devices, systems, and technologies must include confidentiality, integrity, and availability mechanisms as part of a defense-in-depth security approach.

How does CipherOptics help?
CipherEngine assures the confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of data in motion on any network or computing infrastructure. Our approach to protecting both your network and your server communication, is to deny access to everyone and permit by exception. With that approach as our driving force, our solutions provide you with both encryption and authentication of all your critical information on the LAN or Wireless LAN.

Using powerful 256-bit AES encryption that is approved by the NSA for "sensitive" information, CipherOptics hardware accelerated appliances authenticate networks and packets, and protect data. Using the robust secure hash algorithm (SHA-1), our encryptors verify the integrity of the data, rejecting any packets that have been manipulated or altered. Secure hash can also be used to thwart unauthorized intrusion at the network level. Our encryptors' deterministic firewall feature can reject any packets that lack the proper encryption-based authentication of a trusted endpoint. This effectively turns the local network dark to all unauthenticated traffic from the outside network.

In support of DoD 8100.2, CipherOptics CipherEngine can also use encryption to logically separate data of different security levels that travel on the same network (referred to as cryptographic segmentation).

CipherOptics network encryptors are FIPS-140-2-compliant and available on government buying vehicles. They are field-proven in some of the most security-conscious networks in the world and are the preferred solution for securing high-speed IP networks by many agencies. Customers include the Social Security Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Coast Guard, NASA, U.S. Army and the National Security Agency.

For more information or to learn how CipherOptics can help you protect your sensitive data as it moves across any network, call us at 1-877-878-6655 or feel free to ask us a question.

Learn more about DOD 8100.2 Compliance

Learn More About:
Scope of Audit Reduction
Application Domain Security
Network Encryption

Helpful Resources
Text of DoD Directive 8100.2