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AirTight Provides Industry’s First Solution for Wireless MultiPot Vulnerability AirTight Revealed Potent Variant of Evil Twin at DEFCON 15; SpectraGuard Enterprise also Prevents Wi-Fi DOS Attacks Mountain View, CA - August 15, 2007 - AirTight® Networks, the leading provider of wireless intrusion prevention solutions (WIPS), announced that its SpectraGuard® Enterprise product is the first in the industry to detect and prevent the security threat presented by wireless MultiPot attacks. AirTight released the patch immediately following the DEFCON 15 conference during which. AirTight security researcher, K.N. Gopinath, revealed the discovery of this potent Wi-Fi hacking tool on August 4th. MultiPot is a more potent variant of Evil Twin against which the prevalent defenses, in particular deauth-based session containment, have been totally ineffective until now.   “This variant of Evil Twin, which we call MultiPot, is one of several vulnerabilities recently discovered by AirTight researchers,” said Pravin Bhagwat, CTO for AirTight. “As hackers continue to create new and more sophisticated ways to gain access to networks through wireless vulnerabilities, it is important for those of us in the security community to discover these threats, alert vendors and the enterprise through responsible disclosure and quickly develop tools to defeat them.”   Older generation WIPS solutions with wired side (port shut-down) prevention techniques are also completely ineffective against the MultiPot threat and new techniques are required to address this and other evolving threats. These new techniques are part of AirTight’s continuing leadership in identifying emerging threats and placing priority on developing products to derail those threats.   With the release of SpectraGuard Enterprise 5.5 in the fall, AirTight is taking WIPS technology to the next level of location and prevention to keep up with increasing wireless threats such as MultiPot as well as the challenges presented by emerging technologies such as 802.11n. SpectraGuard Enterprise is the only WIPS product to currently protect against both MultiPot and Denial of Service (DOS) attacks which attempt to disrupt the Wi-Fi network.   “SGE is the only solution to provide a unique DOS mitigation process comprised of accurate detection of attack, location tracking of the DOS attacker, and suppression of the DOS attacker to the extent that it does not blackout legitimate communication,” continued Bhagwat. “While some other products facilitate location tracking of APs and clients, they are completely helpless in locating a DOS attacker, much less preventing or mitigating a wireless DoS attack. Only SpectraGuard accurately detects DoS attacks without generating many of false alarms and only SpectraGuard can mitigate or alleviate the effects of such an attack to allow WLAN communications to continue.”   AirTight’s SpectraGuard Enterprise product is the only WIPS product to eliminate false alarms, both positive and negative, with accurate detection, classification, prevention and location tracking. It is for this reason that large enterprises and government organizations choose AirTight to secure both their wired and wireless networks from wireless threats and enforce wireless policy. About AirTight Networks AirTight Networks, the industry standard for wireless vulnerability management, is the only company that offers customers a flexible, end-to-end solution that gives them visibility into their wireless security posture and a choice in how to manage it. AirTight provides full wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS) and the world’s first on demand wireless vulnerability management service. AirTight’s patented technology delivers the key elements of an effective WIPS to eliminate false alarms, block wireless threats immediately and automatically and locate wireless devices and events with pinpoint precision. AirTight’s customers include global retail, financial services, corporate, education and government organizations. AirTight Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA. For more information please visit www.airtightnetworks.com Media Contacts: Della Lowe AirTight Networks Tel: +1 (650) 934 8191 della.lowe@airtightnetworks.com AirTight Networks, and the AirTight Networks logo are trademarks; and AirTight and SpectraGuard are registered trademark of AirTight Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. << Back to: Press Releases