AirDefense BlueWatch Now Available on PDAs; Market Leader Continues to Offer the Wireless LAN Industry's Most Comprehensive Suite of Intrusion Prevention Solutions.ATLANTA -- AirDefense, the leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security monitoring, today announced AirDefense BlueWatch(TM), the industry's first commercial-grade Bluetooth monitoring solution available on personal digital assistants (PDAs). AirDefense BlueWatch enables organizations to identify rogue and insecure Bluetooth devices in their wireless environment. Today, many companies already employ a "no Bluetooth policy" preventing employees, visitors and vendors from bringing Bluetooth-enabled devices into their organizations. These companies will benefit from using AirDefense BlueWatch to detect Bluetooth as people pass through designated entry points of an organization - a clear reminder of the security policy. "The AirDefense BlueWatch PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). was designed to enable administrators to more easily track down Bluetooth devices," said Anil Khatod, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AirDefense. "With the availability of BlueWatch, AirDefense is continuing to develop the most innovative and useful technology being used today to prevent wireless network intrusions from occurring." The popularity of Bluetooth hacking is growing rapidly in both the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Europe. The most popular attack, Bluesnarf, enables hackers to steal users' calendars, contact lists, e-mail or text messages. A hacker can easily discover and connect to these devices and instantaneously steal a person's data or interrupt transactions. Like the original version of BlueWatch available for Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. or Windows 2000 laptops, AirDefense BlueWatch PDA monitors the airwaves airwaves Noun, pl Informal radio waves used in radio and television broadcasting to: --Identify different types of Bluetooth devices, including laptops, PDAs, keyboards and cell phones --Provide key attributes, including device class, manufacturer and signal strength --Illustrate communication or connectivity among various devices --Identify services available on each device, including network access, fax and audio gateway AirDefense BlueWatch is part of the AirDefense family of products, which provides wireless intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. based on patent-pending technology that identifies wireless activities anywhere, anytime. The flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , AirDefense Enterprise, uses distributed sensors to monitor the airwaves and communicate back to a central server appliance A self-contained computer system specialized for network use. Its applications are pre-installed, and access to setup and configuration is via a Web browser. Server appliances may provide a single application or several applications; for example, a single device may provide file server, . The server correlates and analyzes the data to provide scalable, centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management of all wireless deployments by providing rogue detection, policy enforcement, intrusion prevention and health monitoring of the wireless network. About AirDefense AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security and monitoring. The company's products provide the most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy enforcement and intrusion prevention both inside and outside an organization's four walls. AirDefense's enterprise-class products scale to support everything from single offices to organizations with hundreds of locations. Founded in 2001, AirDefense is based in Alpharetta, GA and services 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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