Is Ubiquiti FIPS compliant?

[taylorc]

So the organization I work for is currently looking in to a new wireless solution and you cant beat the cost of Ubiquiti equipment. So my question is are the UniFi access points and the UniFI Switches FIPS compliant?

[jeffwerstuik8902 (Jeff1700)]

Don’t know off hand, maybe ask them directly?

[gulfsailor]

Which FIPS code are you referring to specifically?

Edit: Looking at the forums it looks like the APs and EdgeRouters are ABLE to meet FIPS 140-2 but Ubiquiti hasn’t bothered to go through the certification process. This isn’t unusual, government isn’t a large enough market for them to justify the certification process costs. And FIPS certification costs really are stupidly high, even for government work.

Reminds me again why I stay away from public sector work.

[taylorc]

@GulfSailor yes 140-2 and “Reminds me again why I stay away from public sector work.” LOLZ

[austin-ubiquiti]

The UniFi APs are not FIPS certified, we have no current certification plans but may look into this in the future.

[mdpeterman]

Have to be FIPS certified? Co Cisco. Pretty much what government uses anyways.

[guadalupediosdado5382 (lupe936)]

I work in the public sector, your options are very limited due to the FIPS requirements. I actually just attended a CJIS FBI security awareness meeting\training and their recommendation\best practice was to not implement wireless at all!

Like said before your best bet is to go with major vendors.

[rhosey]

You can comply with FIPS 140-2 & use UniFi (or any other AP) if you deploy a FIPS 140-2 certified VPN & use it for internal connections. At that point, you are relying on the encryption & certification of the VPN client, and the WiFi encryption (and certification) is irrelevant… it’s simply a form of media.