Just as with corporate enterprises, government organizations are taking advantage of the productivity-boosting and cost-saving benefits of 802.11 wireless LANs. But in today's growing concern over cyber terrorism, some government organizations quickly grew wary over the initial vulnerabilities of wireless LANs. AirDefense works with government organizations to secure enterprise wireless LANs by identifying security risks, such as rogue access points and unencrypted traffic; monitoring the network in real-time to identify impending threats, such as unknown stations scanning the network and the use of Netstumbler or other network probing tools; detecting and preventing intruders by quickly identifying attacks and eliminating the threats; enforcing corporate WLAN policy to maximize security and performance and providing fault diagnostics and performance monitoring to aid network management.

The Department of Defense issued a wireless directive, Number 8100.2 on April 14, 2004. This directive establishes policy and assigns responsibilities for the use of commercial wireless devices, services, and technologies in the DoD Global Information Grid. Recognizing the security threats that unsecured wireless networks pose to interconnected systems, the Directive spells out policies for deploying secure wireless networks, and requires monitoring of those wireless networks for compliance.

AirDefense makes compliance simple. AirDefense helps your organization meet most of the requirements of Directive 8100.2 by providing 24 x 7 monitoring of all 802.11 wireless protocols, intrusion detection, and auditing to maintain network compliance with DoD policy. Outlined below are the key sections of the directive that AirDefense can help you meet:

Section	Requirements	AirDefense
4.1.1	Monitoring for Strong Authentication
4.1.2	Monitoring for Strong Encryption
4.1.4	Mitigation of Denial of Service and other Disruptions
4.2 & 4.3	Banning Wireless Devices in Designated Areas/Monitoring
4.4	Removing Wireless Personal Area networks (WPAN) / Bluetooth Devices
4.5	Active Monitoring of Unauthorized Access of DoD IS