Certicom is shipping movianVPN, software that runs on wireless handhelds to connect with VPN servers installed at large corporate sites. Some Cisco and all Nortel Networks dial-up VPN servers support movianVPN, and Certicom says it is talking to other vendors. Network World on VPNs Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter.
Current authentication consists of user name and password.
That will improve response time over the network. One beta user says the current movianVPN lets his healthcare company evaluate corporate uses of wireless PDAs and how well they meet security requirements. Sanderson says five clients are being distributed among executives to figure out who at Catholic Healthcare might best use the devices and what the implications of that use would be. Healthcare computer security is subject to federal rules that are still being defined in an effort to maintain patient privacy. So it is important to evaluate whether PDAs at the end of VPNs can be made secure, he says.