AirTight Rated "Positive" in Leading Industry Analyst Firm's MarketScope on Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems

Mountain View, CA., July 28, 2010 – AirTight Networks, the global leader for wireless intrusion prevention (WIPS) products and services announced today that Gartner, Inc., the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, has rated AirTight "Positive" in Gartner’s 2010 Marketscope Report for Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems. The July 2010 report was authored by John Girard, VP, Distinguished Analyst, John Pescatore, VP, Distinguished Analyst and Tim Zimmerman, Principal Research Analyst at Gartner.

Vendors were evaluated on five criteria – customer experience, offering (product) strategy, overall viability (business unit, financial strategy, organization), marketing execution, product/service.

The MarketScope report notes that an overlay architectural choice for WIPS, "provides the broadest and deepest approach to security…" and that, "WLAN security monitoring in the form of wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS) is required to ensure that supported WLAN performance is not impeded by interference or denial-of-service-attacks, WLAN traffic is kept private and secure, users are prevented from installing unauthorized WLANs, and unsupported/unauthorized WLAN technologies are barred from operation. Strong regulatory requirements in government and retail have particularly strong influence on WIPS purchases."

The report also concludes that, "Although few buyers cite infrastructure operations management as the top buying decision, products in this market are also capable of coping with operational challenges for traffic, performance management and compliance that are posed by the increasingly complex mix of wireless traffic."

"AirTight's goal is to provide customers with the best wireless security regardless of what infrastructure they deploy and to assist them in understanding the performance of their WLAN," said David King, Chairman and CEO of AirTight. "Our patented overlay model continues to serve them best to address all current and emerging threats including Soft APs and those that arise from Wi-Fi enabled iPhones, Smart Phones and Tablets."

As they scale their networks, AirTight gives customers flexible tools that allow them to quickly see what factors or threats are impacting the network, drill down to the heart of the problem and resolve it quickly.

King added, "We are proud to have the value of our services in the WIPS market confirmed by this 'Positive' rating in the current Gartner Marketscope. Our phenomenal growth in 2009 underscores the faith our customers have that we will continue to put the security of their wired and wireless networks first and foremost as we develop new capabilities."

About AirTight's Products
The AirTight SpectraGuard solution family has achieved industry leadership based on patented technology that blocks wireless threats immediately and automatically, locates wireless devices and events with pinpoint precision and eliminates the false alarms that plague busy network operations and IT professionals.

Both its onsite WIPS product, SpectraGuard® Enterprise and its on-demand hosted vulnerability management service, SpectraGuard Online are low touch solutions providing easy deployment and automated scanning and reporting with little human intervention.

SpectraGuard Enterprise and SpectraGuard SAFE, AirTight’s endpoint protection product, have achieved Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2 certification from the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS). (http://www.niap-ccevs.org/cc-scheme/vpl). SpectraGuard SAFE is the first end point wireless security product to achieve this certification.

AirTight's products, which have consistently outperformed its competitors in head-to-head, in-depth evaluations (including Tolly and Information Security,) are protected by solid portfolio of intellectual property.

AirTight’s Patent Portfolio
AirTight invented and delivered the first comprehensive WIPS in the industry and pioneered autoclassification which eliminates the need for manual methods of base-lining wireless security which are expensive, error prone, hard to sustain and not scalable. AirTight received a patent on its WIPS invention in the United States, the 7,002,943 patent.

AirTight now has a total of 17 U.S. patents granted or allowed, and two international patents (UK and Australia) granted. It has more than 20 U.S. and international patents pending, many of which are undergoing active examination at patent offices of various countries and are expected to be granted this year.

MarketScope Disclaimer
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About AirTight Networks
AirTight Networks is the global leader in wireless security and compliance solutions. AirTight's patented technology protects enterprises from the growing problem of Wi-Fi security threats, while allowing organizations to better manage their WLAN environment and comply with emerging wireless compliance standards (i.e. PCI). The Company's award-winning SpectraGuard wireless intrusion prevention solution (WIPS) family provides enterprise security and compliance professionals with unparalleled capabilities to accurately detect, classify, block and locate all Wi-Fi security threats, while helping network operations staff to quickly monitor and troubleshoot WLAN performance issues. AirTight's pioneering Cloud Services family of cloud-hosted subscription services delivers the world's first and only "No Capex" multitenant WIPS, PCI wireless compliance and controller-less WLAN access solutions all in a single device.

AirTight's award-winning solutions are used by customers globally in the government, financial, retail, hospitality, telecom, technology, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and education sectors AirTight owns the seminal patents for wireless intrusion prevention technology with 23 U.S. and international patents granted to date (UK, Australia Japan) and more than 20 additional patents pending. AirTight Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA.

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Della Lowe
AirTight Networks
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della.lowe@airtightnetworks.com