Wireless security solutions provider Columbitech has released a comprehensive platform of wireless security offerings for retailers. These field-tested solutions provide retailers with an end-to-end platform to integrate secure communications and session persistence for all data from any device and server environment. Retailers receive full coverage to secure data on all wireless retail devices, scanners, printers, RFID readers and wireless servers via the company's wireless security platform.

This comprehensive platform includes wireless VPN (CWPN), application SDK to create VPN clients for any retail wireless device like wireless printers, wireless scales and POS devices, and embedded SDK to integrate server capabilities or any server or wireless switch across the retail environment. The platform offers a true end-to-end solution to secure back-end systems and a completely secure environment for transmitting data. Along with these applications, Columbitech has a certification program for handheld devices that has certified numerous products, which have completed quality assurance, interoperability and validity testing to adapt VPN security via industry requirements. The company has deployed more than 11,000 servers, most of them within retail.

“Zebra was the first thermal printer company to embrace Columbitech's VPN security and adapt it to wireless on-demand printing,” said Robert Danahy, director of mobile and wireless technology at Zebra Technologies. “Our Global 2000 and market-leading customers appreciate how easy it will be for them to secure all the data on their many types of wireless devices, including Zebra printers, with Columbitech's portfolio of advanced security solutions.”

“Increasingly, retailers are requiring higher levels of security for their mobile applications needs, including mobile data capture computers. This requires the additional critical support of VPN security,” said Dave Rowlands, vice president services of PSC Inc. “Columbitech provides this important link for securing the data via any wireless connection or network environment and makes it virtually seamless for retailers to easily reap the benefits of higher security with negligible effects on performance.”

In addition to providing all the components for a secure infrastructure to access data, Columbitech adheres to the most advanced set of industry protocols and standards. Retailers benefit from Columbitech's wireless decurity platform, which is compliant with the payment card industry (PCI) data security standard and virtually any network environment from GSM, GPRS, WIMAX, and 3G to WLAN and Wi-Fi.

“Our long-term experience in wireless security combined with working closely with top U.S. retailers has helped us expand our offering to secure any component in the retailer's infrastructure without sacrificing performance or connectivity,” said Åsa Holmström, president of Columbitech. “We make it very easy for retailers worried about different aspects of security to take one step to meet all security requirements, and obtain a wireless security solution that is industry leading.”

The technology in Columbitech Wireless VPN supports clients running on Windows XP, Windows 2000, Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003 for PPC, Windows CE (support for Win CE is dependent on implementation) and DOS.

For more information, visit www.columbitech.com