SAN FRANCISCO -- Companies offering products to secure content stored on wireless devices were out in force at this year's RSA Conference here, underscoring the increased urgency with which companies are addressing the security threats posed by mobile workers.
Security technology for mobile devices ran the gamut from hardware appliances that lock down wireless networks to secure PINs (personal identification numbers) and VPN (virtual private network) software targeted at cellular phones and handheld PDAs (personal digital assistants).
To that end, there were a number of products on display at the conference, which runs through Thursday at the
Pointesec Mobile Technologies, for instance, announced Pointsec for Pocket PC 2.0, a software application that encrypts data stored on Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 PDA. The product can encrypt data stored on a PDA device, including files used by Microsoft's Outlook or Pocket Word applications. Also, the software can protect PDA data stored in removable media such as microdrives, multimedia Cards (MMCs), and secure digital cards, according to Pointsec, which is part of Protect Data, of
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Offering a different option for securing data on mobile devices, Renesas Technology America shoed off its PIN Secure MultiMediaCard, a standard seven-pin MMC card outfitted with PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) encryption and DRM (digital rights management) as well as a tamper resistant module for data storage. The SecureMMC card can be used to secure file-level data on PDAs and cellular phones that accept the MMC cards. Files are stored on the PDA in encrypted form. License keys and a PIN to access those keys are stored in the SecureMMC card's tamper resistant module, Renesas said.
On the WLAN (wireless LAN) front, Funk Software demonstrated its Odyssey Server v1.1 and Steel-Belted Radius v4.0 servers. The latest versions of those products from Cambridge, Mass.-based Funk now feature WLAN security management and integration features.
Odyssey v1.1 is intended for smaller offices or autonomous wireless networks within larger organizations. The latest version of the product adds the ability to authenticate WLAN users against a non-Windows authentication database, such as one based on SQL/LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), or a token authentication system such as RSA Security's ACE Server.
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