Posted on Feb 11, 2016
Is it against any regulation to have a commercial network in the same environment as a NIPR and SIPR network?
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Your SIPR should be self contained in a secured room. No other network is allowed in that room, including NIPR. There should be no wireless access in that room, as well. Having said that, my last unit provided a civilian commercial wirless network for general use. It was justified as an MWR resource. It should never be used for official business, unless the user is using a vpn to access DOD resources, and then only if no available NIPR workstation is available. I do not believe that such a setup is covered in any regulation, and is, instead, a local command level decision.
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Capt Bob Abbott
There are regulations on how they're set up. I speak from having worked in a server room recently in SWA.
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SGT Edward Wilcox
Please, sir, list the relevant regulations. As a 25B in a brigade S6, I held admin credentials on the NIPER and SIPR networks. When the brigade staff wanted a wireless network installed, I could find nothing in any published regulation that dealt with what they wanted.
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SCPO Joshua I
SIPR and NIPR can be in the same room with no problem, it's set up that way essentially everywhere. I've had JWICS/SIPR/NIPR all on my desk before. There are wireless networks now that are legal for NIPR traffic, that may also be allowed, but I'm not up on those regulations as that came around after I moved out of that world a little bit.
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I would guess it's a security problem, regular network access might open a security hole in secure military networks. Just a guess though.
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