About PDA Defense
PDA Defense was created by Asynchrony Solutions, Inc., an information technology consulting firm in St. Louis specializing in middleware architecture, system integration and custom application development, including wireless and web applications. Its clients included Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, new ventures and start-ups.
The first version of PDA Defense for the Palm OS shipped in 2001, followed by a Pocket PC edition at the end of that year and an Enterprise edition for Palm, Pocket PC and BlackBerry in 2002. In December 2002 Asynchrony spun the product line off into a separate division led by David Melnick, co-author of the McGraw-Hill book PDA Security: Incorporating Handhelds into the Enterprise.
PDA Defense won SC Magazine's Best of 2002 in Mobile Security and Planet PDA Best of Show awards in 2002 and 2003. Palm licensed the Enterprise edition as "Security Plus" for its Tungsten Mobile Information Management solution, and the product was used across the US military, government agencies and enterprises worldwide.
On May 7, 2004, JP Mobile acquired PDA Defense and continued it as SureWave Mobile Defense, with Professional and Enterprise editions for the Palm OS, Pocket PC and RIM devices.
This site preserves the product documentation and adds new mobile security notes for the smartphone era.