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December 2002 - Nokia
and IBM announced that they will together provide end-to-end
secured business applications on advanced mobile handsets
targeted at the enterprise market. IBM Global Services
will act as a system integrator of Nokia's Mobile VPN
solution for Symbian OS-based mobile handsets worldwide.
Nokia's
Mobile VPN solution consists of Nokia Security Service
Manager (NSSM) and Nokia Mobile VPN Client for secure
over-the-air provisioning of Mobile VPN client software
and policies for Nokia's Symbian OS-based mobile handsets.
IBM Global Services will offer the Nokia solution to
the fast growing enterprise market, fulfilling customer
needs with a service portfolio that includes installation,
maintenance, financing and consulting services. Drawing
on its extensive mobility expertise and leadership in
the wired Internet security market, Nokia offers mobile
security solutions to extend secure network infrastructure
to mobile terminals. The Nokia Mobile VPN Client is
a standards-based IPSec VPN client supporting both legacy
and PKI authentication. NSSM is an open standard, over-the-air
provisioning system for mobile security applications,
such as the Nokia Mobile VPN Client and for third party
applications in the future.
This
open architecture underpins Nokia's ability to offer
inspired, human centric and trusted technology. The
solution allows advanced mobile handset and laptop users
to share the same network security infrastructure for
enterprise access. This provides advanced mobile handset
connections with the high level of security and systems
management capabilities that the enterprise customers
have, today, in their traditional IT environment.
"A
key component of setting up and maintaining a mobile
workforce is securing information transactions from
employees' mobile terminals to their corporate networks.
This means that enterprises can be more productive and
competitive while their employees can work smarter and
more efficiently. Nokia is pleased to offer its new
mobile security solutions which are enabling business-critical
applications for the mobile enterprise world," adds
Dan MacDonald, Vice President of Product Management
& Marketing, Nokia Internet Communications.
IBM
Global Services has extensive experience in designing
and deploying reliable, secure and scalable wireless
e-business applications for enterprises across numerous
market sectors. Leveraging IBM's worldwide consulting
and industry expertise, IBM customer implementations
include field force and sales force solutions, wireless
LAN, smart card and e-business to smart machine communications.
"IBM's
customers tell us that security is of crucial importance
as they mobilize their workforces to increase productivity
and drive competitive advantage," said John Kirby, Vice
President, Global, Wireless e-business Services, IBM.
"By combining IBM Global Services expertise with Nokia's
mobile security offerings, we can now offer customers
new levels of VPN security. Over-the-air provisioning
systems offer significant cost savings by reducing the
maintenance work involved in installation of VPN clients
and updating of security policies."
This
Nokia and IBM collaboration will accelerate business
usage of advanced mobile handsets, increasing productivity
in mobile work environments. The applications taking
advantage of the secure mobile infrastructure include:
- Personal productivity; calendar, messaging, groupware
solutions and intranet access - Customer service; field
service, workforce management and insurance claims processing
- Sales force automation; order management and configuration
tools - Operational productivity; maintenance services,
parts ordering, field reporting, material management,
shipment tracking
Mobile
handsets are a logical extension to the traditional
corporate IT infrastructure. This offering makes it
possible for companies to integrate their mobile workers
with wireless devices to their corporate processes securely.
Also service providers, especially those who are linked
with cellular business, can add the infrastructure security
services in their enterprise service portfolio.
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