Entrust GetAccess™: Mobile Server

Features and Benefits

The Entrust GetAccess™ Mobile Server helps organizations extend the reach of the Web portal to include wireless users. It speeds deployment of these services by offering a standards-based implementation with a convenient and flexible software system.

The Mobile Server can also help to increase the return of your Web portal by leveraging existing investments, mitigating risk and encouraging increased use of Web portal services and resources.

With Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server an organization can, for example:

  • mobilize access to corporate data and services to improve productivity and customer retention
  • enable wireless trusted transactions for such applications as online ticketing, banking, shopping, and auctions
  • provide mobile location-based services such as emergency 911, maps, and directions
  • dynamically offer services such as restaurant advice that are linked to the user’s location
  • deliver mobile multimedia services to new third-generation (3G) mobile devices

Enabling an increase in services that can be offered to more users, Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server makes it easier to deploy the same enhanced security services to wireless users as those enjoyed by desktop, laptop or network computer users.

Customers around the world leverage the following features and benefits delivered by the combined Entrust GetAccess and Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server solution:

Secure and trusted wireless access to protected resources

The Entrust GetAccess™ Mobile Server provides seamless access from wireless devices to protected Web resources. It helps to optimize productivity through continuous secure wireless and Web contact with customers, partners, employees and citizens. In addition to providing the infrastructure for trusted transactions and personalized access, the Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server and Entrust GetAccess help to protect Internet, intranet, and extranet applications and resources. The Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server and Entrust GetAccess facilitate secure delivery of information and access to authorized users on multiple devices-wireless, Web, and non-Web.

Single Sign On (SSO) across applications, domains and devices

The Entrust GetAccess Mobile Solution allows the use of the same user profile to access content, applications, and services from wireless, Web, and non-Web devices. The user need only remember one username and password to access authorized resources across multiple Internet domains and applications.

Manage wireless and Web users with a common administration tool

Set up accounts, reset passwords, assign roles and rules, or instantly revoke wireless, Web, and non-Web users from a central point. Administrators can manage access privileges for users accessing secure resources from multiple devices. This capability optimizes and centralizes user management to ensure that corporate security policies are consistently incorporated across business units and organizations.

Flexible architecture supports many configurations for security and high availability

The Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server utilizes a flexible plug and play framework that allows for several configuration options depending on security and performance requirements. The Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server can be configured to operate on a stand-alone machine with single or multiple instances. Multiple instances of the Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server can be operated across multiple servers to meet demanding load and availability requirements. To minimize hardware requirements, the Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server can also operate on the same machine as the content Web server.

Supports multiple SSL configurations for internal or offsite WAP gateways

The Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server supports configurable SSL connections to the wireless gateway, the server that hosts the Entrust GetAccess Access Service, and Web server. Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server SSL settings to the WAP gateway are easily set ON or OFF during installation. For performance optimization, SSL can be switched ON or OFF to backend services.

Secure network architecture enables consistent security policy management

With the Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server and Entrust GetAccess you can confidently comply with corporate security policies that ensure protection of sensitive data accessed with wireless devices and the Web. With support on a secure network architecture, password-setting requirements, authentication methods, user management, and instant revocation functions are extended to wireless devices with the Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server.

Scalability and high availability proven in global deployments

The Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server is designed to support mission critical enterprise applications requiring 24x7 operation with high login and concurrent sessions. The Mobile Server can be configured for operation in distributed environments on multiple machines that connect to a common high availability database for session management. Configurable session cache sizes and other system parameters can be tuned for performance optimization. Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server has been implemented globally and is used by leading organizations worldwide. Egg, Europe's foremost online financial services provider, has used Entrust GetAccess to enable personalized and secured transactions over the Web to over 2 million Web and wireless customers.

Easy to Deploy and Maintain

The Entrust GetAccess Mobile Server is independent network software that can be installed with minimal impact to the existing IT network. The product does not require any periodic maintenance. The product supports NT and Solaris and can easily be installed, uninstalled, configured and started.

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