Juniper revealed the purchase of Ohio-based SMobile Systems yesterday, as it looks to round out the company’s mobile security offerings. A privately held company, SMobile specializes in security products for mobile and tablet devices.

The price tag for the purchase will come in at $70 million according to a statement from Juniper.

"It’s no secret that mobile devices are quickly becoming a major (and in some cases THE major) means customers, partners and employees access corporate networks”, said Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Services Layer Technologies at Juniper Networks, in a blog posting on the company’s website.

“With this come[s] inevitable security concerns which have plagued ‘traditional’ corporate access in the past”, he added.

Bauhaus went on to explain that SMobile offerings and technology would be incorporated into Juniper’s Junos Pulse product, creating what he said is “the industry’s only secure Internet mobility solution from device, to application, to the network”.