Information Security: Federal Agencies Need to Improve Controls over Wireless Networks GAO-05-383, May 17, 2005. Highlights.
“…federal agencies have not fully implemented key controls such as policies, practices, and tools that would enable them to operate wireless networks securely. Further, our tests of the security of wireless networks at six federal agencies revealed unauthorized wireless activity and “signal leakage”–wireless signals broadcasting beyond the perimeter of the building and thereby increasing the networks’ susceptibility to attack. Without implementing key controls, agencies cannot adequately secure federal wireless networks and, as a result, their information may be at increased risk of unauthorized disclosure, modification, or destruction.”
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