Mobile file sharing provider Accellion has partnered with Good Technology and Mocana Corp. to introduce three new enterprise content-sharing applications for mobile devices. The applications permit agency employees to share enterprise data, similar to technologies such as Dropbox, YouSendIt and Box, but in a way which meets military-grade security standards, allows multiple levels of authentication, and which works on with a variety of popular devices and applications.

Using Good Technology’s Good Dynamics product, and a similar virtual container product from Mocana, the new mobile apps that Accellion announced this week allows enterprise users to collaborate and view more than 200 different file types, editing and sharing files from a secure, encrypted location using smartphones and tablets.

It also also provides agencies the ability to monitor and manage mobile devices and prevent data loss on mobile devices and over the air, according to Accellion’s Reza Nabavi, director of product marketing, mobile products.

For a mobile app on a mobile device to access information within an enterprise using Good Dynamics, that app has to meet specifications within the Good Dynamics’ secure and encrypted container, Nabavi explained. In effect, Accellion’s Mobile App has become a Good app, which is not just encrypted, but also conforms to certain expected behavior, defined in a set of Good Dynamics libraries. “Hence, our tagline, ‘Containerize before you mobilize,’ ” Nabavi said.

Accellion established a similar arrangement with Mocana, which is used by the military and is already accredited to meet federal standards for cryptographic “engines” used inside of software or hardware implementations, spelled out in the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2.

The combination gives users the ability to sift through and access enterprise files securely on a variety of devices, through a secure socket layer, using Apple iOS (iPhone and iPad), BlackBerry, and Android operating systems and applications – and offers what Accellion officials claim is a superior alternative to cumbersome browser-based apps.