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AirTight^® Networks is the global leader in wireless security and compliance solutions providing customers best-of-breed technology to automatically detect, classify, block and locate all current and emerging wireless threats. AirTight offers both the industry's leading wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) and the world's first wireless vulnerability management (WVM) security-as-a-service (SaaS).

AirTight's patented technology delivers the key elements of an effective WIPS to eliminate false alarms, block wireless threats immediately and automatically locate wireless devices and events with pinpoint precision.

AirTight's award-winning solutions are used by customers globally in the financial, government, retail, manufacturing, transportation, education, healthcare, telecom and technology industries.

AirTight has a true global presence with its strong executive team in the heart of Silicon Valley, California and large, robust R&D and engineering teams in Pune, India, which are overseen by the original founders of the company.

Patent Portfolio

AirTight has established a comprehensive WIPS intellectual property portfolio which includes "a method and system for monitoring a selected region of an airspace associated with local area networks of computing devices," and covers key technologies that are fundamental elements of wireless intrusion prevention systems.
AirTight owns the seminal patents for wireless intrusion prevention technology with 12 U.S. patents and two international patents granted (UK and Australia), an additional U.S. patent allowed and more than 20 additional patents pending.

Industry Recognition

Gartner - Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems MarketScope 2009 - Positive
Gartner - Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems MarketScope 2008 - Positive
Gartner - Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems MarketScope 2006 - Positive
AirTight is the only WIPS vendor to receive a "positive" rating in all three MarketScope reports published by Gartner for Wireless Intrusion Prevention.

The Tolly Group, Benchmarking Strategies for Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems (Jan'2007)
The Tolly Group, Evaluating Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems (Feb'2006)
Tower Group, Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems
Frost and Sullivan 2008 North America Network Endpoint Protection Customer Value Enhancement Award
Frost and Sullivan 2008 Market Share Advancement Award
InfoSecurity, Top 10 Security Innovations in the Year 2009 , AirTight WDoS prevention,December 2009
PCPro, SpectraGuard Enterprise Review
SC Magazine, Airtight SpectraGuard, 5 Stars
TechWorld, AirTight SpectraGuard, wireless LAN security review
InfoSecurity Products Guide, Global Product Excellence Awards - Customer Trust 2007
Mobile Village, Mobile Gold Star Award in Enterprise Software Category
eWeek, SpectraGuard Enterprise 5.0 Review
Information Security Magazine, Review of Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems (WIPS)

Technology

AirTight Networks' products incorporate industry-leading (patented) technology that encompasses several areas, among them:

• Detection and Auto-Classification of wireless devices and events to automatically determine which of them are authorized and which represent a threat
• Robust Intrusion Prevention of multiple, simultaneous wireless threats as hackers know that multiple threats often can break down a company's defenses
• Industry's first 802.11n sensor platform which is backward compatible with abg legacy installations
• Accurate Location Tracking so that wireless threats can be dealt with quickly and efficiently
• Predictive RF Planning for both wireless APs and security sensor placement and coverage to avoid or reduce the need for costly site surveys

Products

June 2007, SpectraGuard and SAFE, Common Criteria EAL-2 Certification

SpectraGuard Enterprise:
May 2005, 3.0 Release; August 2005, 3.1 Release; November 2005, Colubris InCharge RF Manager

December 2005, 4.0 Release; May 2006, Siemens HiGuard (OEM); April 2006, 4.x Release
June 2006, 5.0 Release; February 2007, 5.2 Release; June 2007, 3Com AirProtect Enterprise; October 2007, 5.5 Release; November 2008, 5.7 Release, May 2009, 5.9 Release; January 2010, 6.0 Release 

SpectraGuard Online:
April 2008, 1.0 Release

SpectraGuard SAFE:
January 2006, 1.0 Release; June 2006, 2.0 Release; March 2008, 2.5 Release; May 2009, SAFE 2.7 Release; January 2010 SAFE 3.0 release

SpectraGuard Planner:
May 2005, 3.1 Release; October 2005, Colubris InCharge RF Planner; October 2006, 4.0 release; September 2008, 5.0 Release; March 2007, 3Com AirProtect Planner

SpectraGuard Sentry:
July 2005, 1.0 Release; March 2007, 3Com AirProtect Sentry

Customers

AirTight and its technology partners serve 1200 customers including: Adesa Corp., Assa Abloy ITG, C.E. Unterberg, Towbin (CEUT), USAID, U. S. Army, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, ICICI Bank, Celcom, Ketera Technologies, Hesperia Unified School District, Palm Beach County School District, John C Lincoln Health Network, Maine Medical Center, Synergy Health, QuickChek, GNC, Puma, GORE, Ryder,  Lloyds, Hong Kong International Terminals, Harlow City Council, Essex, UK, and many other global financial, government, retail, manufacturing, transportation, education, healthcare, telecom, and technology organizations.

Partners

AirTight Networks' technology partners include ArcSight, CheckPoint, Wild Packets and Broadcom.. AirTight Networks has a parallel OEM distribution strategy, licensing the technology to wireless LAN/networking equipment vendors and/or security equipment vendors for integration into their solutions. WLAN OEM partnerships include HP, Enterasys and 3Com/ H3C/Tipping Point and others;WLAN partners include, Trapeze Networks (Belden), Aerohive, Avaya (Nortel) and Meru; Security partners in clued McAfee, Qualys, Trustwave and Rapid 7;.Channel partners include, General Dynamics, VADition, Insight Networks, Accuvant, Fishnet Security, Telus, SK telecom and SoftBank