Securing Remote Access to USDA Information Systems and Client Devices

a. This Departmental Regulation (DR) establishes the policy for secure remote access to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) information systems with secure devices.

b. It is USDA’s policy to comply with Federal requirements to establish, implement, and enforce a policy on USDA information systems that facilitate remote access and devices used to access USDA information systems remotely.

c. This policy supersedes the domestic use-case elements of DR 3580-003, Mobile Computing, dated September 24, 2013.