AirDefense Awarded Fundamental Patents for Wireless Intrusion Prevention; Awarded patents are the broadest and earliest in the field.ATLANTA -- AirDefense, the innovator that launched the wireless LAN security One issue with corporate wireless networks in general, and WLANs in particular, involves the need for security. Many early access points could not discern whether or not a particular user had authorization to access the network. market, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property (USPTO USPTO abbr. United States Patent and Trademark Office ) awarded the company patent number 7,058,796 titled "Method and system for actively defending a wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area against attacks" on June 6, 2006. Filed on June 3, 2002, this is the earliest and broadest patent awarded in this field. It encompasses fundamental wireless session containment mechanisms that are required and currently used by all wireless intrusion prevention systems. AirDefense, which has an installed base of more than 500 enterprise customers, is currently shipping its seventh generation system, AirDefense Enterprise 7.0. The system leverages the methods described in the awarded patent to provide the most comprehensive, scalable and accurate wireless LAN monitoring and security solution available on the market today. The specifications of the patent describe the core principles behind AirDefense's solution: --Multiple detection techniques such as signature, protocol, policy and anomalous behavior analysis for minimal false positives and day zero attack detection --Intelligent classification of authorized, unauthorized and rogue wireless devices --Automatic, regulatory compliant, AirTermination(TM) using over the air session containment --Mapping the physical and logical location of wireless devices --Wireless policy and compliance management --Proactive wireless vulnerability assessment A Department of Defense, command, or unit-level evaluation (assessment) to determine the vulnerability of a terrorist attack against an installation, unit, exercise, port, ship, residence, facility, or other site. --Forensic data storage and incident analysis --Threat index-based techniques for enhanced manageability "Without employing the fundamental techniques described in this patent, there is no real way to prevent a wireless intrusion," said Dr. Amit Sinha, chief technology officer of AirDefense. "The methods outlined in this patent were pioneered by AirDefense and are currently used by all wireless intrusion prevention systems in the market. Without them these systems will be ineffective." AirDefense was also awarded patent number 7,042,852 titled "System and method for wireless LAN dynamic channel change with honeypot A server that is configured to detect an intruder by mirroring a real production system. It appears as an ordinary server doing work, but all the data and transactions are phony. Located either in or outside the firewall, the honeypot is used to learn about an intruder's techniques as trap" on May 9, 2006. This patent describes advanced techniques to mitigate wireless attacks such as foiling attempts to break encryption in real-time. It also describes a framework where intruders can be trapped without disrupting authorized wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. . "Traditional wired security paradigms do not translate effectively into wireless networks," said Professor Fernando C. Colon Osorio, founder and director of the Wireless System Security Research Laboratory, which performs cutting-edge research on distributed network intrusion detection See IDS and IPS. and counter measure systems. "The allowed patents describe some novel and comprehensive methods that AirDefense has pioneered for wireless security. The architectural scope of the patent claims is broad and will encompass any meaningful wireless intrusion protection solution." AirDefense currently has one additional patent that has been allowed and 18 more that are pending at the USPTO. AirDefense's comprehensive and growing patent portfolio extends its wireless LAN intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. intellectual property into broader areas such as security for emerging wireless networks, spectral analysis Spectral analysis may refer to:
About AirDefense AirDefense, the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security and monitoring, is trusted by more Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations and high-security government agencies for enterprise wireless protection than any other wireless security provider. Ranked among Red Herring's Top 100 Private Companies in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , AirDefense products provide the most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy enforcement and intrusion prevention, both inside and outside an organization's physical locations and wired networks. Common Criteria-certified, AirDefense enterprise-class products scale to support single offices as well as organizations with hundreds of locations around the globe. Founded in 2001, AirDefense is based in Alpharetta, GA, and serves hundreds of government agencies and blue chip corporations. For more information, please visit http://www.airdefense.net or call 770.663.8115. |
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