UK MVNO Anvil Mobile has announced the availability of Option’s Cloudkey, the first complete solution for instant and secure, fully authenticated, mobile access over 3G networks. Cloudkey combines strong authentication and workflow to secure access to corporate network-based applications, data and services using 3G mobile broadband.
While DSL broadband lines have a fixed IP address that can be logged into the corporate firewall to support a secure VPN connection, 3G mobile broadband typically uses a dynamic IP address and sends data over the insecure public internet via a shared APN (Access Point Name). With Option, Anvil has overcome this security flaw by enabling the delivery of mobile broadband with a fixed IP address, a low latency Layer 2 (L2TP) 3G connection and a private APN. As the data is tunnelled through carrier class networks, it does not traverse the public internet.
