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Lightweight Portable SecurityLightweight Portable SecurityPosted Dec 16, 2010 17:22 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)Parent article: Lightweight Portable Security
This seems like a proof of concept thrown together from existing parts; hopefully they'll hire some Linux people and make it actually good. If they've managed to get a Citrix client on it that can do CAC auth, that would give it some immediate practicality.
One day perhaps connecting to DoD networks from home computers running anything *but* LPS will be banned. I think that would be the ultimate end goal of this kind of project.
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for telecommuting Posted Jan 14, 2011 20:07 UTC (Fri) by HunkyDory (guest, #72382) [Link]
If you look at their website, you'll see the free Public version and a link to the Remote Access version for telecommuting, https://spi.dod.mil/COOP/DoD_reg_SSL.htm.
The Public version is just for surfing. Its seems reasonable to me that the free Public version is lower security (= easier to maintain, give away free, able to be used by more folks, simplier, a plaything, the alpha-version, try-it-first-here-before-lockdown, etc.) and the Remote Access version would have far more advanced security features. The pages hints at just that, even saying its only given out as individualized custom builds.
Given that DoD laptops are some of the most locked down computers out there AND the DoD is very defensive about its networks AND the Government is a vast bureacracy, it would suggest that this 'new kid on the block' has to be far superior to the existing solutions get that high a level of approval - the DoD CIO approved it for emergency use!
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