About Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issues Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) for Federal computer systems. The FIPS 140 Publication Series coordinate the requirements and standards for cryptographic modules (both hardware and software components).

For more information about Vocera FIPS support and the FIPS 140-2 standard, see the following documents:

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140sp/140sp2107.pdf
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140sp/140sp1287.pdf
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/index.html

If you use Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) for your authentication server and your wireless network is configured for WPA-PEAP authentication, you need to download and install a Microsoft update for your IAS server to support FIPS 140-2. This update adds support for additional AES cipher suites in the Schannel.dll module. For details, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948963.