AirTight Receives ‘Positive’ Rating for Networks WIPS Solution

MarketScope on Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems just published

Mountain View, CA - June 1, 2006 - AirTight® Networks, a provider of wireless perimeter security solutions, today announced that AirTight Networks rated "Positive" in Gartner's Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems MarketScope, 1H06 report. This MarketScope was published on May 24, 2006 by Gartner, and authored by Rachna Ahlawat.
 
“This market will double in size in 2006 as more organizations look to tighten the security of their wireless LANs,” said Rachna Ahlawat, Research Director at Gartner, in the report. “Wireless IPSs provide an additional layer of security to an enterprise. Given that wireless is a shared medium, and it is relatively cheap and easy for employees and visitors to set up small wireless networks, enterprises must consider deploying a wireless IPS to detect and mitigate rogues and prevent denial of service attacks.”
 
AirTight Networks’ SpectraGuard Enterprise has established its market position by delivering the key elements of an effective wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS):
detecting and correctly classifying wireless threats – to catch all threats, while minimizing false alarms
preventing (multiple, simultaneous) wireless threats – while continuing to scan for new ones
accurately locating the wireless threats on a floor map – so they can be removed.
 
AirTight Networks distributes these capabilities as a standalone security overlay solution through VARs to enterprises, as well as in an integrated, WLAN switch & WIPS solution through OEM partners such as Colubris Networks, Extreme Networks, and Siemens Communications. AirTight Networks has also announced a CTDP partnership with Cisco Systems and is a member of Check Point’s OPSEC Alliance program.
 
“We believe this Gartner MarketScope rating is very important to the market,” said Dennis Tsu, vice president of marketing at AirTight Networks. “We feel Gartner’s assessments carry a lot of weight with enterprise customers and influence many decisions. We are proud that Gartner has given us a positive rating.” A copy of the Gartner MarketScope report will be available on AirTight Network’s website.
 
AirTight Networks’ family of products include SpectraGuard® Enterprise, SpectraGuard MNC, SpectraGuard Sentry, SpectraGuard Planner, and SpectraGuard SAFE (Security Agent For Endpoints) products.

Gartner MarketScope Disclaimer
The MarketScope is copyrighted 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. 

About AirTight Networks
AirTight Networks is the global leader in wireless security and compliance solutions. AirTight's patented technology protects enterprises from the growing problem of Wi-Fi security threats, while allowing organizations to better manage their WLAN environment and comply with emerging wireless compliance standards (i.e. PCI). The Company's award-winning SpectraGuard wireless intrusion prevention solution (WIPS) family provides enterprise security and compliance professionals with unparalleled capabilities to accurately detect, classify, block and locate all Wi-Fi security threats, while helping network operations staff to quickly monitor and troubleshoot WLAN performance issues. AirTight's pioneering Cloud Services family of cloud-hosted subscription services delivers the world's first and only "No Capex" multitenant WIPS, PCI wireless compliance and controller-less WLAN access solutions all in a single device.

AirTight's award-winning solutions are used by customers globally in the government, financial, retail, hospitality, telecom, technology, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and education sectors AirTight owns the seminal patents for wireless intrusion prevention technology with 23 U.S. and international patents granted to date (UK, Australia Japan) and more than 20 additional patents pending. AirTight Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA.

Media Contacts:
Della Lowe
AirTight Networks
Tel: +1 (650) 934 8191
della.lowe@airtightnetworks.com