AirTight Helps U.S. Oil Co., Inc Find a Better Way to Achieve PCI Wireless Compliance and Wi-Fi Security

SpectraGuard Enterprise Selected for Its Ease of Use and Automation

Mountain View, Ca - March 30, 2010 - U. S. Oil prides itself on looking to the future for better ways to compete in categories shaped by global trends and transformational technologies. This led the company to choose SpectraGuard® Enterprise from AirTight® Networks to automate its PCI DSS compliance scanning efforts to meet the Wireless Guideline issued last year by the PCI SSC and strengthen its wireless security.

"Because of the number of transactions U.S. Oil processed last year, we needed to go through a more complex PCI compliance audit," said Joe Kunde, IT Manager at U.S. Oil. "That gave us the opportunity to look at every security practice across the company and discover where we could do better - how we could improve on rogue AP detection. We wanted to then measure our efforts against the PCI requirements to meet not only the letter of the requirement but the real intent. We also made a strategic decision to put more emphasis overall on IT security including wireless."

U.S. Oil has over 50 locations throughout the Mid-Western United States, some with Wi-Fi deployed and others that do not have it. Kunde needed to make sure that each of the locations was adhering to the security policies in place to protect card holder data. Performing spot checks with a mobile analyzer was too time consuming and labor intensive. After considering options which included using the wireless security which came with his Cisco infrastructure or expanding on the manual processes he already had in place but doing some automation behind the scenes, Kunde chose SpectraGuard Enterprise.

"Automation played a big role in our choice of SpectraGuard. It was the number one selling point," continued Kunde. "We run a lean shop and I could not afford to bring in any solution that required a lot of manual intervention but knew that I needed robust full time prevention, not something which shared its time between access and monitoring. AirTight was the obvious choice because it is plug and play. I needed to simply give the sensors to someone who is on site in a remote warehouse, get them powered up and ready to go feeding back information."

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. AirTight's patented technology has proven over and over again that security and simplicity are not mutually exclusive.

About US Oil
U. S. Oil Co., Inc. is a wholesale distributor/marketer of petroleum products, automotive parts, tires, Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) products, and contractor for petroleum/automotive equipment installation. With roots in East Central Wisconsin, U.S. Oil has business operations in the Midwest, Northeast and Mountain states and employs more than one thousand associates.

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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