AnthaVPN Standard - Virtual Private Network

What is Virtual Private Network (VPN)?

A VPN (virtual private network) is a way to use a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization's network. A virtual private network can be contrasted with an expensive system of owned or leased lines that can only be used by one organization. The goal of a VPN is to provide the organization with the same capabilities, but at a much lower cost.

Benefits of a VPN Standard

Using anthaVPN on your handheld, you will be able to request document updates from any colleague at your offices HQ. anthaVPN encrypts the message and sends it to the wireless network, the Internet, and finally HQ's VPN Gateway. The VPN Gateway decrypts the message and passes it to your colleague. He responds by attaching the updated document and the process begins again in reverse. All communications between your handheld and the VPN gateway are completely secure. With the Standard version for Cisco or Nortel routers the parameters or pre configured and the end users is only required to configure the Gateway IP address and Username/Password.

General Description

AnthaVPN is an award-winning VPN client that provides secure wireless access to corporate network resources. Built on the IPSec standard, AnthaVPN works with leading VPN gateways, handheld devices and wireless networks so you can extend strong, cost-effective security to mobile employees. Certicom's experience with security for constrained environments and ECC technology ensures that AnthaVPN has negligible impact on performance or battery-life.

Public-key encryption:

ECC Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is a publickey cryptography technique providing 128- bit security approved for use by many security standards including ANSI, IETF, IEEE and NIST.

ECC is an excellent solution for managing keys in a public-key system, and also for generating keys as needed. While the nature of alternatives such as RSA makes it difficult for them to generate public keys for devices such as smart cards, ECC is capable of doing so rapidly and easily.

Strong security, high performance

AnthaVPN supports current and legacy algorithms along with a range of authentication options such as RSA Soft Token, providing strong security. High performance is maintained through Certicom's constrained device expertise and an ECC implementation that is ideal for securing wireless devices.

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