AirDefense Receives Allowance of 8th and 9th Patent for Wireless Intrusion Prevention.AirDefense is the Owner of all 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, has recently been notified by 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 ) that the company's 8th and 9th patents have been allowed. With seven granted, two allowed and eighteen patents pending, AirDefense owns dominant patents in the area of wireless intrusion prevention and wireless troubleshooting. AirDefense's 8th patent titled "Method and system for encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science network management and intrusion detection See IDS and IPS. ," extends the fundamentals of wireless intrusion detection through multi-dimensional analysis to encrypted wireless networks. Tests such as a signature test, protocol test, statistical anomaly test and policy test are applied to determine whether a particular communication represents a potential intrusion or a security violation. This patent has been filed in several foreign countries as well. AirDefense's 9th patent titled "Systems and methods for adaptively scanning for 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. ," covers intelligent scanning techniques that maximize visibility in wireless communications that could happen on several different radio frequency channels. Adaptive scanning creates effective monitoring on multiple channels based on traffic, threats and historical behavior. AirDefense's patents cover the broadest scope of intellectual property in the wireless intrusion prevention industry to ensure that the hundreds of blue chip corporations using our products are protected 24x7 against threats," said Dr. Amit Sinha, chief technology officer, AirDefense. "These latest allowed patents further support and strengthen AirDefense's industry leading position amongst WIPS WIPS Wireless Intrusion Protection System (Symbol) WIPS Wireless LAN-based Indoor Positioning System WIPS Whetstone Instructions Per Second WIPS Web Interaction Per Second WIPS Weather Information Processing System vendors." AirDefense has an additional eighteen 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. On March 11, AirDefense launched AirDefense Enterprise 7.3, the most comprehensive and patented wireless intrusion prevention platform featuring the first software-only Spectrum Analysis solution. AirDefense recently received the only 'Best Buy' rating from SC Magazine amongst wireless intrusion prevention software companies in a 2008 independent product review. The company was named one of 2008's Top 40 Most Innovative Companies by the Technology Association of Georgia. AirDefense was the only wireless intrusion prevention company to receive a '2007 Reader's Choice Award' from Information Security [TM] magazine and Frost & Sullivan named the company the 2007 'Market Leader' in wireless intrusion prevention. 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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