Tuesday 3 November 2009

Why your enterprise mobility system needs a NetMotion VPN

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/10/wifi_hot_spots_not_secure.html

1 comment:

StefC said...

ZDNet followed on with this:

Wi-Fi firms put onus on users for hotspot security http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39848950,00.htm

For enterprises using VoIP, when you use Mobility XE you get Packet Loss Recovery (PLR) - it means that any Skype or Softphone VoIP usage is not just end-to-end secure, it actually improves the quality of voice or video across congested Wi-Fi access points or other wireless connections

On that last thought, I also found this snippet which adds useful comment on ensuring conversations over VoIP are not hi-jacked http://www.nemertes.com/impact_analyses/maninthemiddle_attack_underscores_need_voip_security

“Where mobile and wireless use of VoIP or Video is important to the business process, NetMotion Mobility’s Packet Loss Recovery improves quality over imperfect connections like congested Wi-Fi access points or cellular. NetMotion Mobility is not only a mobile VPN offering military grade end-to-end security, it also includes the ability to perform Packet-Loss Recovery (PLR) for real-time applications. The PLR technique applied by Mobility XE uses a sophisticated mathematical technique that adds some additional payload to each packet. When packets are lost, PLR reconstructs them using information from the packets that were received to avoid breaks in the conversation or momentary picture loss, and improves the overall quality of the communication when networks lose packets or experience high latency or jitter.”