Wireless Communication Policy

 Overview

With the mass explosion of Smart Phones and Tablets, pervasive wireless connectivity is almost a given at any organization.  Insecure wireless configuration can provide an easy open door for malicious threat actors.

Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to secure and protect the information assets owned by your company. Your company provides computer devices, networks, and other electronic information systems to meet missions, goals, and initiatives. Your company grants access to these resources as a privilege and must manage them responsibly to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all information assets.

This policy specifies the conditions that wireless infrastructure devices must satisfy to connect to your company's network. Only those wireless infrastructure devices that meet the standards specified in this policy or are granted an exception by the Suzor IT team are approved for connectivity to your company's network.

Scope

All employees, contractors, consultants, temporary and other workers at your company, including all personnel affiliated with third parties that maintain a wireless infrastructure device on behalf of your company, must adhere to this policy. This policy applies to all wireless infrastructure devices that connect to a company network or reside on a company site that provides wireless connectivity to endpoint devices including, but not limited to, laptops, desktops, cellular phones, and tablets. This includes any form of wireless communication device capable of transmitting packet data.

Policy

General Requirements

All wireless infrastructure devices that reside at a company site and connect to a company network, or provide access to information classified as Confidential, or above must:

• Abide by the standards specified in the Wireless Communication Standard.
• Be installed, supported, and maintained by an approved support team.
• Use Suzor IT approved authentication protocols and infrastructure.
• Use Suzor IT approved encryption protocols.
• Maintain a hardware address (MAC address) that can be registered and tracked.
• Not interfere with wireless access deployments maintained by other support organizations.

Lab and Isolated Wireless Device Requirements

All lab wireless infrastructure devices that provide access to Confidential information or above, must adhere to the General Requirments section above. Lab and isolated wireless devices that do not provide general network connectivity to the company network must:  

• Be isolated from the corporate network (that is it must not provide any corporate connectivity) and comply with the Lab Security Policy.
• Not interfere with wireless access deployments maintained by other support organizations.

Home Wireless Device Requirements

• Wireless infrastructure devices that provide direct access to the corporate network, must conform to the Home Wireless Device Requirements as detailed in the Wireless Communication Standard.
• Wireless infrastructure devices that fail to conform to the Home Wireless Device Requirements must be installed in a manner that prohibits direct access to the corporate network. Access to the corporate network through this device must use standard remote access authentication.

Policy Compliance

Compliance Measurement

The Suzor IT team will verify compliance to this policy through various methods, including but not limited to, periodic walk-thrus, video monitoring, business tool reports, internal and external audits, and feedback to the policy owner.

Exceptions

Any exception to the policy must be approved by the Suzor IT team in advance.

Non-Compliance

An employee found to have violated this policy may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.