DISA is encouraged by the recent implementation of a DoDnetwork security infrastructure upgrade – a first “Joint Regional Security Stacks” – at Joint Base San Antonio, and has called on the department to build on the momentum.
The JRSS supports theDoD Joint Information Environment, and includes failover, diversity and elimination of critical failure points as a means to assure timely delivery of critical information to warfighters around the globe, according to DISA.
It said the use of multi-protocol label switches inside security stacks provides a virtual traffic management system that moves data faster, improves command and control, and prioritizes and streamlines data flow, significantly reducing the chances of data being stalled or lost due to high volume and congestion.
Joint Base San Antonio is the first of 25 DoDNIPRnet data sites to host the suite of equipment, which performs firewall functions, intrusion detection and prevention, enterprise management, virtual routing and forwarding, and provides a host of network security capabilities, DISA said.
It said 25 SIPRnet Data sites will be implemented into the same locations over the next year, and that so far installation is complete at ten JRSS sites within the continental US.
