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RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling


From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund () medline com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 21:41:20 +0000

Remember it's the data that is classified, not the network.  It does not matter if you have IP connectivity, it matters 
if the classified data is allowed to move over the connection. When a government agency talks about a "classified 
network" they are talking about a network that has been approved to transport the data and has appropriate access 
controls.  Just because your email server is attached to the Internet does not mean I have access to its data.  Same in 
the classified world, just because you can send an email from the Internet to SIPRNET does not mean you have SIPRNET 
access.

Steven Naslund
Chicago IL

Classified networks do not connect to other networks unless
they are equally or higher classified.

that sentence makes no sense.  if A can connect to B because B is more
highly classified than A, then B is connecting to a less classified
network A.

randy


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