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Article: Firewall secures battlefield communications; Military tanks, Humvees, helicopters to be outfitted with firewall for mobile IP network.
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- Network World
- Article date:
- October 19, 2007
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Byline: Jon Brodkin
A security vendor that helps protect U.S. military communications has adapted its firewall for use in tanks, Humvees
and helicopters to prevent enemies from intercepting IP transmissions on the battlefield.
Rapidly improving warfare technology is utilizing satellite imagery to determine the best tactical moves, and IP communications
to relay instructions to soldiers, says Scott Montgomery, vice president of product management for Secure Computing. Protecting
these communications is vital, as Israel learned last year when Hezbollah guerillas hacked into radio communications in southern
Lebanon, ...