Agencies to dole out new hardware keys for secret networks

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2012/07/agencies-dole-out-new-hardware-keys-secret-networks/56907/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov
July 20, 2012

The Pentagon is helping civilian agencies block access to federal 
classified networks by anyone who does not have a new smart card, 
military officials announced Thursday night, in the wake of recent 
information leaks.

During a closed-door House committee hearing earlier in the day, Defense 
Secretary Leon Panetta briefed lawmakers on the action -- part of a new 
top-down agenda to prevent the exposure of government secrets.

Defense Department officials already had announced the ongoing 
distribution of the new tokens that military employees will need to 
enter the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, which handles the 
military’s classified data.

Thursday’s policy states, “department personnel are working with other 
federal departments and agencies to help them issue the same cyber 
identity credential to all employees who need to access any of the 
government's secret networks.”

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