AirTight Wins NASSCOM New Technology Innovation Award for Wireless Intrusion Prevention

AirTight Networks Selected Among 24 Finalists for Its SpectraGuard Online Service

Pune, India - Feb 3, 2010 - AirTight® Networks, the global leader in wireless intrusion prevention (WIPS) products and services, today announced that it is the winner of the 2009 NASSCOM® Innovation Award in the New Technology Advancement category. The award was given to AirTight for the introduction of SpectraGuard® Online, the first wireless intrusion prevention product to be delivered as SaaS. NASSCOM is the premier trade body of the IT-BPO companies that have a presence in India and the awards "recognize organizations that have made innovation a part of their DNA and developed extraordinary and pioneering products and services."

"AirTight Networks is a classic example of a top quality company which has created 'new to the world' technology," said Amit Nivsarkar, Vice President, NASSCOM, "The area of security in general and wireless security in particular require critical attention. AirTight has the capabilities and the innovative culture to assume a leadership position in this space."

The winners were selected after a rigorous three-stage process culminating in a series of road shows in four major Indian cities.
 
"Every year since we began shipping product in 2005, AirTight has introduced a new and unique wireless security innovation to the market and we are honored to receive this prestigious award and recognition from NASSCOM," said Kiran Deshpande, President of AirTight. "At AirTight we constantly strive to innovate and deliver new products and features to our customers to keep them ahead of emerging wireless threats."

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 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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AirTight Networks
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