Topic

Using Virtual Local Area Networks

Applicable to

all

History

Priority

Must

Mar 2022

VLANs are not used to separate network traffic between an organisation’s networks and public network infrastructure.

Miscellaneous changes were made to rationale and recommendations throughout the publication to clarify content without changing intent. This included a review from the Guidelines for System Hardening chapter through to the Guidelines for Data Transfers chapter.

Dec 2021

VLANs are not used to separate network traffic between organisations’ networks and public network infrastructure.

Miscellaneous changes were made to rationale and security controls throughout the publication. This included:

• A review from the Using the Information Security Manual chapter through to the Guidelines for Media chapter.

• Security controls suitable for all audiences have been identified with the ‘All’ applicability marking while additional security controls suitable for just government audiences have been identified with the O, P, S and TS applicability markings.

• Security controls suitable for specific classifications have been amended to include their classification(s) in the wording of the security controls to reduce the reliance on applicability markings to confer suitability.

• Tables in security controls have been converted into prose to allow for inclusion in the SSP annex template and the XML list of security controls.

• The use of ‘official’ and ‘highly classified’ terminology has been replaced with specific classifications to remove ambiguity.

• Security controls relating to high assurance ICT equipment have had their applicability narrowed to ‘S, TS’ reflecting that they are intended for the protection of SECRET and TOP SECRET systems and data.

Aug 2019

VLANs are not used to separate network traffic between official or classified networks and public network infrastructure.

Security control 1310 was merged into security control 1532.

Jul 2019

VLANs are not used to separate network traffic between classified networks and public network infrastructure.

Nov 2018

VLANs are not used to separate network traffic between classified networks and public network infrastructure.

Added as a result of a split of security control 0529.