Juniper offers SSL-VPN security for smartphones

Stuart Corner
Monday, 15 February 2010 09:13

Business IT - Security

Juniper Networks has announced new SSL-VPN-based software for smartphones that it claims "closes a significant security gap for enterprises, improves productivity for mobile employees, and enables mobile providers to monetise security services for mobile workforces."

The software, Junos Pulse, is billed as the industry's first downloadable client software that provides secure connections across smartphones, notebooks and netbooks to a broad range of corporate applications. Juniper says it will also offer "a powerful network accelerator that speeds performance of mobile applications and services to enable 4G-like experiences over 3G networks."

According to Juniper, "Junos Pulse provides mobile users with location-aware and identity-aware access to enterprise networks - using the same SSL VPN gateway as traditional desktops...Enterprises and service providers can set and enforce sophisticated dynamic and granular security policies that allow them to enable access to specific resources and data by user identity, and restrict access by others."

Juniper says it is working with mobile platform providers to deliver Junos Pulse for use on Microsoft Windows phones, Nokia Symbian OS devices and other smartphone operating systems during the first half of 2010.

Juniper also launched Juniper Mobile Secure, billed as "a new solution that enables service providers to embed security throughout their infrastructure - across mobile devices, applications and networks."

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