Computing Device Authentication Function

Device authentication governs equipment attaching to mission networks, which narrows a rogue ground station operating inside the mission's own infrastructure but not one transmitting from outside it, where MI-AUTH-02 carries the interdiction.

The practice requires that all types of computing devices be uniquely identified and authenticated, which is the check an unauthorised peripheral or removable device fails. [Curation] The excerpt scopes device authentication to network-connected endpoint devices before establishing a NETWORK CONNECTION. IA-0011 covers peripherals and removable media over USB, UART and SpaceWire, which are not network connections and are not authenticated by this practice. The network-attached subset is covered, the dominant scope is not.