Patent ID: 7665118
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of selectively providing a mobile computing device with access to a software application on a server, the method comprising: generating at the server a mobile security policy for a user from data received from a LDAP directory communicably coupled to the server; transmitting the mobile security policy and key materials from the server to a gatekeeper device; receiving at the gatekeeper device a request to access the software application from the mobile computing device; determining at the gatekeeper device whether to grant access to the software application by checking whether the mobile computing device has an installed security program; automatically initiating by the gatekeeper device installation of the security program onto the mobile computer device if the mobile computer device does not have the installed security program; authenticating at the gatekeeper device the user; transmitting the mobile security policy from the gatekeeper device to the mobile device; and enforcing on the mobile device a rule encoded in the mobile security policy.