The embodiments described herein recite a geo-location based community of interest (CIO) system and method that add the capability to configure Network Connect Devices (NOD) to identify the location of the source and destination TIP addresses. The NODS may drop any packets that are destined to an IP address outside of its predefined radius. For any sent/received packets, the geo-location position of the remote IP-address on the wide area network (WAN) may be determined. The distance between two points on the earth given their latitudes and longitudes of the devices may be determined. If the distance is greater than the predefined range, the data packets may be denied. If the distance falls within the pre-determined range, the data packets are allowed to reach their destination.