Mocana Announces Support for IKEv2, EAP-IKEv2, and MOBIKE Protocols

Mocana addresses emerging security requirements for next generation wireless devices and services.

SAN FRANCISCO - May 21, 2007 - Mocana, a software company that is enabling a secure networked society, today announced that its Embedded IPsec/IKE solution now fully supports IKEv2, the most recent version of the Internet Key Exchange protocol which is used to negotiate a Security Association at the outset of an IPsec session. By increasing the breadth of its product line to include the support of IKEv2, Mocana is ensuring that the most current security standards are being met and is demonstrating Mocana’s commitment to upholding the highest levels of security.

“Many industries are standardizing on IKEv2 and will require vendors to support the protocol,” said Adrian Turner, chief executive officer and president of Mocana. “Mocana’s Embedded IPsec/IKEv2 is just another example of how Mocana is striving to provide customers with solutions that are completely scalable and that meet the most current security standards.”

Next generation wireless and mobility standards have formalized IKEv2 as its Key Exchange protocol. IKEv2 is ideally suited for processor and bandwidth-constrained wireless devices like dual mode VoIP/WiFi handsets, by reducing connection latency, processing, and by providing DoS (denial of service) protection.  With the release of IKEv2, Mocana provides a complete Device Security Framework for next generation mobile devices. Now, device manufacturers can build FMC, IMS, 3GPP and UMA devices using Mocana's integrated IPSec/IKEv2 and EAP solution containing EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA, EAP-IKEv2.

Mocana IPsec/IKEv2 is one component of Mocana’s Device Security Framework, which is made up of several embeddable components that OEMs and providers of internet-based services can leverage to secure next generation devices and services. Extensible, suited to work with single and multi-core processors, and able to leverage hardware acceleration, Mocana’s Device Security Framework offers high levels of scalability and performance with an extremely small footprint.

Mocana’s Embedded IPsec/IKEv2 solution also supports the MOBIKE (IKEv2 Mobility & Multihoming) protocol which is an extension of IKEv2. This extension allows for efficient management of the re-establishment of Security Associations when the IP address of an IPsec host changes during a session. In a mobility scenario, an IP address on an IPsec host is changed multiple times during one IPsec session. The MOBIKE protocol provides specifications to handle these changes efficiently. Mocana’s Embedded IPsec/IKEv2 solution conforms to RFC-4306 (Internet Key Exchange IKEv2 Protocol) and also supports EAP-IKEv2 (Extensible Authentication Protocol), which provides mutual authentication and session key establishment between the EAP peer and the EAP server. Mocana’s implementation of this method conforms to the latest Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) draft.

About Mocana
Mocana is an infrastructure software company securely enabling Internet scale products and IP based services that leverage device connectivity. Mocana's industry-leading infrastructure software solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, networks and services perform and scale with the utmost security – a necessary foundation for a networked society. Customers include Dell, Cisco, Avaya, Nortel Networks, Harris, Honeywell, Symbol, Emulex, Net.com and Radvision, among others.

Mocana was founded in 2002, is privately-held, and headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit www.mocana.com. To request a free full source code and documentation evaluation of Mocana's security solutions, visit www.mocana.com/evaluate.html

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