AirTight Networks Receives Wireless Security Cloud Patent; Now Holds 24 Patents Granted

Patent Covers Concepts Essential to Provide Cloud Based Wireless Intrusion Prevention and Compliance Solutions 

Mountain View, CA - October 5, 2011 - AirTight^® Networks, the leading provider of wireless intrusion prevention (WIPS) products and cloud-based wireless security, compliance and secure Wi-Fi access, today announced that it has been granted U.S. patent number 8,032,939. The patent titled, "Method and System for Providing Wireless Vulnerability Management for Local Area Computing Networks," covers the essential components for any cloud-based wireless security and compliance solution. With this patent, AirTight now holds 24 U.S. and International (UK, Australia and Japan) patents granted to date and 20+ patents pending.

AirTight was the first to launch cloud-based WIPS and wireless PCI compliance solutions several years ago and added secure Wi-Fi to the suite of cloud services this year. AirTight's Cloud Services^TM are based on key innovations to facilitate plug and play deployment and centralized granular administrative control, even for large distributed Wi-Fi networks.

"The grant of this patent demonstrates AirTight's continued leadership in pioneering new concepts and owning comprehensive intellectual property in wireless security," said Dr. Hemant Chaskar, Vice President of Technology at AirTight. "With technology changing at a rapid pace and budgets under pressure, cloud-based solutions offer the enterprises a way to add capabilities with less investment and without complicated rollouts. The technology pioneered by AirTight enables organizations to take advantage of the cloud revolution for the wireless security and compliance solutions."

About AirTight Networks
AirTight Networks is a global provider of secure Wi-Fi solutions that combine its patented and industry-leading wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) technology with the next generation cloud-managed, controller-less Wi-Fi architecture. This unified approach allows enterprises for the first time to benefit from Wi-Fi access while concurrently protecting their networks 24/7 from wireless threats at no additional cost. AirTight's customers include global enterprises across virtually all industries and range from those who overlay AirTight WIPS^TM on top of other WLAN solutions, to those who leverage the AirTight Cloud Services^TM to rollout and manage AirTight Wi-Fi^TM, WIPS, and regulatory compliance (e.g., PCI) across tens of thousands of locations from a single console. AirTight owns the seminal patents for wireless intrusion prevention technology with 29 U.S. and international patents granted, and more than 20 additional patents pending. For more information, please visit: www.airtightnetworks.com.

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