Dod IT projects come under fire: Wireless LAN security lapse at defense agency

摘要

For weeks, the agency responsible for the U.S. Department of Defense's global networks and classified command and control systems had a gaping security hole in its own front yard. Security cameras at its Arlington, Va., headquarters were connected to a nonsecure wireless LAN until last week. Chris O'Ferrell, chief technology officer at NetSec Inc. in Herndon, Va., which provides intrusion-detection services to numerous federal agencies and commercial customers, detected the nonsecure wireless LAN at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on May 10.