Certicom Corporation, a provider of wireless security solutions, has made available movianVPN 3.0, a VPN client for handhelds that supports the advanced encryption standard (AES) algorithm and digital certificates for authentication.

According to Certicom, movianVPN allows companies to extend critical enterprise applications such as e-mail and customer resource management (CRM) tools to mobile professionals by enabling handheld devices to connect to corporate VPN gateways for secure wireless access.

To ease implementation for administrators working with large deployments, Certicom said it has also developed movian DeploymentManager (movianDM) to be used with movianVPN to generate and distribute VPN policy. movianDM also provides administrators with improved policy control so they can lock down configuration options to minimize user errors and lower help desk costs.

Certicom said it expanded movianVPN 3.0's gateway support (over 12 gateway platforms) with the addition of the Cisco Secure PIX Firewall VPN and Cylink Nethawk VPN Gateway. It also increased the support for different devices and connectivity by adding NetGear (802.11 compact flash card), Samsung i300 smartphone, and Handspring Trio smartphone support. movianVPN supports a variety of Palm, Windows CE, Pocket PC and Symbian OS handheld clients.