AirDefense and Department of Defense to Present at The 2005 Mobile and Wireless Security Solutions Conference.ATLANTA -- AirDefense, the leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security, today announced that 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. Anil Khatod and members of the Department of Defense's (DoD) Joint Forces Command Joint Experimentation Directorate team will speak at the Mobile and Wireless Security Solutions Conference on Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at 12:30 p.m. The conference is being held at the Executive Conference Center NRECA NRECA National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Headquarters Building in Arlington, VA and will enable corporate decision makers and IT managers to protect their wireless networks and mobile devices from wireless and mobile security threats. Derek Krein, J9 security and wireless engineer, and Tony Cerri, J9 experimentation engineering department lead of JFCOM JFCOM Joint Forces Command (formerly ACOM change effective 1 Oct 99) , will discuss the challenges the DoD faced and how they securely deployed and maintained the agency's WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network . Khatod will discuss the most common 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 risks and the need for wireless security. Khatod, Krein and Cerri will answer questions following the presentation. The J9 deployed a wireless network nearly two years ago to research the benefit wireless could have on their network. Because of the sensitive nature of their work, they turned to AirDefense for wireless security and monitoring of their network data. Since the initial deployment of AirDefense, J9 has been able to expand their deployment and confidently identify and prevent unauthorized wireless devices from entering their network. Anil Khatod is a telecommunications and networking veteran who joined AirDefense in December 2003 and aided in bringing AirDefense to the forefront of the wireless LAN intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. security market. Prior to joining AirDefense he was a partner at the venture capital firm Atlas Venture Atlas Venture is an international early-stage venture capital firm that invests in communications, information technology, and life sciences companies. Atlas Venture has investing offices in Boston, London, Munich, and Paris, and its investments are evenly divided between the . Khatod is widely known for his achievements as a senior executive with Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony where in his final position he served as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer. Under his leadership, Nortel's Optical business grew to over $10 billion in revenue. Tony Cerri and Derek Krein are responsible for the technical support to all J9 experiments and environments. This includes Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Modeling and Simulation (M&S), and Engineering Operations. About AirDefense, Inc. AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless intrusion prevention. The company's products provide the most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy enforcement and intrusion protection 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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