TheNon-classified Internet Protocol (IP) Router Network[1](NIPRNet) is an IP network used to exchange unclassified information, includinginformation subject to controls on distribution,[2]among the private network's users. The NIPRNet also provides its users access to theInternet.
| NIPRNet | |
|---|---|
| Part of The United States Department of Defense Computer Networks | |
| Based in United States | |
| Site information | |
| Operator | Multiple Operators |
| Controlled by | The United States Department of Defense |
| Open to the public | No |
It is one of the United States Department of Defense's three main networks. The others includeSIPRNetandJWICS.[3]
History
editNIPRNet is composed ofInternet Protocolroutersowned by theUnited States Department of Defense(DOD). It was created in the 1980s and managed by theDefense Information Systems Agency(DISA) to supersede the earlierMILNET.[4]
Security improvements
editIn the year leading up to 2010 NIPRNet has grown faster than the U.S. Department of Defense can monitor. DoD spent $10 million in 2010 to map out the current state of the NIPRNet, in an effort to analyze its expansion, and identify unauthorized users, who are suspected to have quietly joined the network.[4]The NIPRNet survey, which uses IPSonar software developed byLumeta Corporation,also looked for weakness in security caused by network configuration.[5]The Department of Defense has made a major effort in the year leading up to 2010, to improvenetwork security.The Pentagon announced it was requesting $2.3 billion in the 2012 budget to bolster network security within the Defense Department and to strengthen ties with its counterparts at theDepartment of Homeland Security.[6]
Alternative names
editSIPRNetand NIPRNet are referred tocolloquiallyasSIPPERnetandNIPPERnet(or simplysipperandnipper), respectively.[7][8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^DISA acronym list
- ^DISA website, "Sensitive but Unclassified IP Data (formerly known as NIPRNet)"
- ^Clarke, R. A., Knake, R. K. (2012)Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do About it.New York, United States: HarperCollins.
- ^abAnon, "Lost in the NIPRNET", January 2010, (Accessed 19 April 2011, 6:01pm PST)
- ^Mapping the Pentagon's Networks | Defense News.defensenews (24 February 2014). Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ^""Pentagon seeks $3.2 billion for revised cyber budget" March, 2011 (Accessed 19 April 2011) ".Archived fromthe originalon 17 March 2012.Retrieved20 April2011.
- ^"Definition of NIPRNet".PCMag.n.d.Retrieved18 August2021.
- ^Harold F. Tipton; Micki Krause Nozaki (2010).Information Security Management Handbook, Volume 4(6th ed.). CRC Press. p. 67.ISBN9781439819036.