Abstract: A method of performing user authentication by a mobile device with an authentication client and an authentication server with a rules engine. A security validator intercepts an authentication request sent by the client to the server and validates the authentication request by applying security conditions to it. The security validator blocks the request or forwards the request according to the validation. The system includes a proxy server, and if validation is positive the validator sends the authentication request to the proxy server and the proxy server routes it on to the authentication server. In this case the authentication client is disabled from directly routing an authentication request to the authentication server if the security validator is not present or is tampered with.

Abstract: A method is performed by a user device for data inspection. A virtual private network (VPN) component of the device receives data traffic and routes it without encryption as a client to or from a destination server as a virtual private network server. The VPN component operates as a connection traffic forwarding bi-directional pipeline with traffic identification and as a connection traffic forwarding bi-directional pipeline with usage accounting, and as a connection traffic forwarding bi-directional pipeline with traffic manipulation.

Abstract: A method is performed by a user device for data inspection. A virtual private network (VPN) component of the device receives data traffic and routes it without encryption as a client to or from a destination server as a virtual private network server. The VPN component operates as a connection traffic forwarding bi-directional pipeline with traffic identification and as a connection traffic forwarding bi-directional pipeline with usage accounting, and as a connection traffic forwarding bi-directional pipeline with traffic manipulation.