“Mobility is a huge competitive advantage for enterprises. The Nokia Mobile VPN client, together with the Nokia Security Service Manager, provides enterprises with the ability to securely extend their business critical applications out to the mobile workforce. This enhances productivity and helps to reduce costs,” said Erik Anderson, Senior Vice President, Business Applications, Nokia Mobile Phones. “Nokia uniquely understands the requirements of a secure mobile world. “
The number of mobile handsets with connectivity to the Internet is expected to grow rapidly as mobile data rates increase. With this increase in mobile connectivity to enterprise networks, security requirements remain equivalent to those of wired connections. A number of security requirements are best met with open, standards-based IPSec technology. The Nokia Mobile VPN solution uses industry standard protocols such as IPSec between VPN clients and gateways supporting both legacy and PKI authentication. This allows mobile users to authenticate using username/password pairs, security tokens, or X.509 digital certificates. The Nokia Mobile VPN Client supports DES (56bit) and 3DES (168bit) encryption and SHA‑1 and MD5 for data integrity.
For enterprises, the Nokia Mobile VPN solution can extend their network infrastructure to mobile handsets, offering their employees access to business applications while they are away from the office. Extending a network to handsets requires a tool such as NSSM to handle the management and support of the increasing number of new handsets. With NSSM, security administrators can centrally and cost-effectively provision VPN client software and related security policies for large numbers of mobile handsets. When using Nokia IP Series network security appliances with VPN-1Ò/FireWall-1Ò software from Check Point Software Technologies, this solution implements a reliable infrastructure that supports core enterprise services.
For mobile operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) the Nokia Mobile VPN solution provides opportunities to deliver new, differentiated wireless data services to extend their current services portfolio.
The Nokia Mobile VPN solution will be available through selected system integrators and resellers. Deliveries of the Nokia Mobile VPN Solution begin during Q1 2003.
About Nokia Internet Communications
Nokia Internet Communications, headquartered in Mountain View, California, provides world-class Network Security, Virtual Private Network and Internet Traffic Management solutions that ensure the security and reliability of corporate enterprise and managed service provider networks. Nokia is committed to enhancing the end user experience by bringing a new level of security and reliability to the network, enabling an Internet transaction that is personal and trusted-each and every time.
Nokia Internet Communications, headquartered in Mountain View, California, provides world-class Network Security, Virtual Private Network and Internet Traffic Management solutions that ensure the security and reliability of corporate enterprise and managed service provider networks. Nokia is committed to enhancing the end user experience by bringing a new level of security and reliability to the network, enabling an Internet transaction that is personal and trusted-each and every time.
For more information, please visit www.nokia.com and click on Secure Network Solutions. Nokia Internet security and virtual private network appliances span the spectrum of price/performance points, and secure the widest range of network environments-from the smallest branch office to the largest Internet data center. The expansive product line, backed by world-class global support and services, provides customers the ability to deploy multiple solutions from a single product to secure all elements of a distributed enterprise.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed broadband and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on six major exchanges.
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