AirTight Networks, a provider of wireless intrusion
prevention (WIPS) products and cloud-based wireless security, compliance and
secure Wi-Fi access, announced that it has been granted U.S. patent number
8,032,939.
The patent titled, “Method and System for Providing
Wireless Vulnerability Management for Local Area Computing Networks,”
covers the essential components for any cloud-based wireless security and
compliance solution.
With this patent, AirTight now holds 24 U. S. and
International (UK, Australia and Japan) patents granted to date and 20+ patents
pending.
“With technology changing at a rapid pace and
budgets under pressure, cloud-based solutions offer the enterprises a way to
add capabilities with less investment and without complicated rollouts. The
technology pioneered by AirTight enables organizations to take advantage of the
cloud revolution for the wireless security and compliance solutions,” said
Hemant Chaskar, vice president of Technology at AirTight.
AirTight was the first to launch cloud-based WIPS and
wireless PCI compliance solutions several years ago and added secure Wi-Fi to
the suite of cloud services this year.
AirTight’s Cloud Services are based on key innovations to
facilitate plug and play deployment and centralized granular administrative
control, even for large distributed Wi-Fi networks.
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.
The company’s 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 Cloud Services family of cloud-hosted
subscription services delivers the world’s first and only “No Capex”
multi-tenant WIPS, PCI wireless compliance and controller-less WLAN access
solutions all in a single device.
AirTight Networks recently announced the addition of
Captive Portal and Walled Garden capabilities to its portfolio of Cloud
Services – a suite of managed services which includes AirTight Secure Wi-Fi.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
