AirTight Receives 'Positive' Rating for Networks WIPS Solution
3 June 2006
AirTight Networks™, a provider ofwireless perimeter security solutions, today announced that AirTightNetworks rated "Positive" in Gartner's Wireless LAN Intrusion PreventionSystems MarketScope, 1H06 report. This MarketScope was published on May24, 2006 by Gartner, and authored by Rachna Ahlawat.
"This market will double in size in 2006 as more organizations look totighten the security of their wireless LANs," said Rachna Ahlawat, ResearchDirector at Gartner, in the report. "Wireless IPSs provide an additionallayer of security to an enterprise. Given that wireless is a sharedmedium, and it is relatively cheap and easy for employees and visitors toset up small wireless networks, enterprises must consider deploying awireless IPS to detect and mitigate rogues and prevent denial of serviceattacks."
AirTight Networks' SpectraGuard Enterprise has established its marketposition by delivering the key elements of an effective wireless intrusionprevention 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 securityoverlay 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 alsoannounced a CTDP partnership with Cisco Systems and is a member of CheckPoint's OPSEC Alliance program.
"We believe this Gartner MarketScope rating is very important to themarket," said Dennis Tsu, vice president of marketing at AirTight Networks."We feel Gartner's assessments carry a lot of weight with enterprisecustomers and influence many decisions. We are proud that Gartner hasgiven us a positive rating." A copy of the Gartner MarketScope report willbe available on AirTight Network's website.
AirTight Networks' family of products include SpectraGuard® Enterprise,SpectraGuard MNC, SpectraGuard Sentry, SpectraGuard Planner, andSpectraGuard SAFE (Security Agent For Endpoints) products.
About AirTight Networks
Founded in 2002, AirTight Networks is the leader in wireless intrusionprevention and performance management solutions. AirTight Networks'SpectraGuard® family of products and services provides enterprises andservice providers with around-the-clock wireless monitoring and automaticintrusion prevention, while managing wireless LAN network performance formaximum capacity and uptime. The SpectraGuard family of products is theindustry's only solution that correctly classifies wireless devices andevents; and automatically identifies, automatically stops, and accuratelylocates wireless security risks and attacks. AirTight Networks is aprivately held company based in Mountain View, CA. For more information,visit the company's Web site at www.airtightnetworks.net.
AirTight, AirTight Networks, and the AirTight Networks logo are trademarks,and SpectraGuard is a registered trademark of AirTight Networks, Inc.
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The MarketScope is copyrighted 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused withpermission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for aspecific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendorsmeasure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner.Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in theMarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only thosevendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressor implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties ofmerchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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