AirDefense Receives Allowance of 7th Patent for Wireless Intrusion Prevention.AirDefense Owns Only Dominant Intellectual Property for 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 Intrusion Prevention See IPS and IDS. and Wireless Troubleshooting 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 ) has notified the company that a 7th patent has been allowed. With six granted patents, one allowed patent and twenty patents pending, AirDefense owns all dominant patents in the area of wireless intrusion prevention and wireless troubleshooting. AirDefense's 7th patent is titled "Systems and methods for adaptive monitoring with bandwidth constraints." It covers essential techniques needed for remote monitoring (protocol) remote monitoring - (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a of wireless networks in the presence of restricted network bandwidth. Bandwidth efficiency The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. is critical to organizations with distributed operations Distributed Operations (DO) is a new warfighting concept being adopted by the United States Marine Corps and is being developed by their Warfighting Laboratory as a response to the changing environment of the Global War on Terror. like those in the retail industry. Several retailers have stores and distribution centers with limited network bandwidth connecting them to headquarters. The ability to monitor such distributed wireless networks centrally, over a limited bandwidth, and without loss in wireless event visibility or degraded de·grad·ed adj. 1. Reduced in rank, dignity, or esteem. 2. Having been corrupted or depraved. 3. Having been reduced in quality or value. system performance is a key requirement. "Bandwidth efficiency has been an important architectural component of AirDefense Enterprise," said Dr. Amit Sinha, chief technology officer, AirDefense. "AirDefense Enterprise can provide full-fidelity, 24x7, wireless monitoring and intrusion prevention with less than 3Kbps of average bandwidth between a sensor and the central server. This is an industry benchmark and AirDefense has service level agreements with large enterprises guaranteeing minimal bandwidth usage without sacrificing performance." AirDefense has an additional twenty patents pending at the USPTO. These patents extend AirDefense's intellectual property into broader areas such as security for emerging wireless networks, interference classification, remote performance troubleshooting, bandwidth optimization, forensic analysis, endpoint wireless security, legacy encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. protection and alarm management. AirDefense recently received the only 'Best Buy' rating from SC Magazine amongst wireless intrusion prevention software companies in an independent product review. Also, AirDefense was the only wireless intrusion prevention company to receive a '2007 Reader's Choice Award' from Information Security [TM] magazine. Frost & Sullivan also named AirDefense the 2007 'market leader' in wireless intrusion prevention. AirDefense was also named one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies by the Technology Association of Georgia. About AirDefense AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security. The company is trusted by more Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations and high-security government agencies for enterprise wireless protection than any other company. 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 Atlanta, GA, and serves 700 government agencies and blue chip corporations. For more information, please visit http://www.airdefense.net or call 770.663.8115. |
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