The Department of Defense has upped the ante on wireless LAN security policies: The new document, a supplement to DoD Directive 8100.2, creates a very high bottom rung for using WLANs as part of the DoD Global Information Grid. Equipment must be Wi-Fi certified and WPA2 Enterprise certified, and handle 802.1X with EAP-TLS using only the AES-CCMP key type. Wireless intrusion detection is also mandated, which should be a boon for the many companies that sell these sorts of systems, either as integrated components of switched WLANs, or as standalone sensors. [Link via Brian Mansfield]