Mobile VPN Provides Secure and Persistent Wireless Access for Police, Fire, and EMS

Columbitech Mobile VPN provides secure and persistent wireless access, enabling police officers, firefighters, and paramedics to significantly improve productivity and their effectiveness in the field. The mobile VPN provides reliable access to record management systems, databases, and other mission-critical applications from computers with 3G access even during coverage gaps and while the device roams between different networks.

FIPS 140-2 certified solution
Columbitech Mobile VPN meets the industry’s highest security standards, offering strong encryption, data integrity, and multi-factor authentication. In fact, Columbitech Mobile VPN is the only mobile VPN that has been tested by the federal agency NIST and is FIPS 140-2 certified.

Session persistence and seamless roaming
Unlike legacy VPNs that do not perform well in a wireless environment, Columbitech Mobile VPN is built for the wireless world and offers such features as seamless roaming, session persistence, and advanced data compression.
Support for seamless roaming and session persistence maintains the authentication and the encrypted VPN tunnel during coverage gaps. This prevents data loss, and the user can continue to use the application without restarting it or logging in again.
Columbitech Mobile VPN also provides advanced compression of data before it is encrypted. This significantly improves application performance, particularly over low-bandwidth networks.

Secure wireless access to records and databases
With Columbitech Mobile VPN, first responders can spend more time in the field and less time on paperwork in the office. Not only does it increase productivity, but it increases situational awareness by giving first responders wireless access to the tools and information they need.

• Police officers can safely access criminal records and other databases from the patrol car as well as complete incident reports and write tickets directly on the spot.
  
• Firefighters can respond faster and more effectively to incidents, with access to records, CAD data, and other databases.
  
• Paramedics can capture patient care data at the point of activity and get secure access to pre-hospital patient and clinical information directly in the ambulance.