Good Technology today extended its mobile security and management product family with the addition of Good Mobile Defense. Good Mobile Defense broadens GoodLink's end-to-end security model on the handheld to protect third party applications and handheld features with the same level of security and manageability that GoodLink and GoodAccess users have come to rely on.

"Security remains one of the foremost inhibitors to expanding wireless application use in the enterprise," says Jack Gold, Principal, J.Gold Associates. "We expect that within the next 1-2 years, 50-65 percent of companies deploying wireless applications, many of which have been deployed with minimal security built-in, will acquire tools that secure and manage those applications. Moreover, with an increasing array of different device types and platforms in use, companies will concentrate on suites that provide maximum platform support while integrating into the existing non-mobile security capabilities enabled in most organizations. Products like Good Mobile Defense enable badly needed enhanced security in enterprise wireless deployments."

Good Mobile Defense provides complete protection of sensitive data across a variety of handheld platforms including Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone, Palm OS, and Symbian. By using Good Mobile Defense, GoodLink, and GoodAccess, enterprises will be able to increase user uptime, ease IT administration and enforce compliance with corporate security policies and government regulations such as GLB, SB-1386, and HIPAA. A combination of server-side and handheld software, Good Mobile Defense provides:

• Advanced Password Management, including protective action after excessive failed password attempts, protection for standard and third party passwords, and the enablement of temporary administrative passwords.
• Application Lockdown, including the ability to set and manage application "white lists" and application launch approval.
• Handheld Feature Control, including the ability to disable data transfer ports such as Bluetooth, Wifi or HotSync, and the ability to lock down handheld features such as cameras, microphones and speakers.
• Advanced Encryption Management, providing options to control the encryption of native handheld memory, storage cards, and specific applications, using AES 256, Blowfish 64, 128 or 512.
• Data Erase after excessive failed password and authentication attempts, as well as remote wipe of all handheld applications.

Good's Secure Over The Air technology enables IT to set and enforce all of these policies wirelessly, without ever having to touch the device, for lower handheld computing TCO. In addition, IT can use Good Mobile Defense in conjunction with GoodLink Compliance Manager to ensure that prerequisite applications such as McAfee's Mobile VirusScan are present on handhelds before corporate data is transmitted.