AirTight Networks’ SpectraGuard Enterprise Wins Mobile Star Award in Enterprise Software Category

Mountain View, CA - October 23, 2006 - AirTight® Networks, the leading provider of wireless intrusion prevention and performance management solutions, today announced that its hallmark product, SpectraGuard® Enterprise, has won a Gold Star Mobile Star Award™ from MobileVillage®, the 14-year leader in market development and news services about mobile technology [www.mobilevillage.com].
 
The fifth annual Mobile Star Awards™ aim to honor and promote the best companies, products, deployments, and leaders in mobile and wireless technology. Winners are chosen by subscribers to Go Mobile®, MobileVillage’s free online newsletter sent to technology executives, mobile professionals, IT managers, developers, and top tech journalists.
 
AirTight Networks’ SpectraGuard Enterprise was selected as the Gold Star recipient in the category of Enterprise Software for WLAN management. This best-in-class wireless intrusion prevention and network management software gives a company the ability to get the best possible performance and tightest security from their WLAN.
 
“The Mobile Star Awards program has grown along with the mobile industry,” says MobileVillage Editor Gary Thayer. “This year we saw hundreds of entries in about 60 categories, and nearly 1,000 people took the time to cast votes. The Mobile Star Awards are unique in that the judges are Go Mobile® readers. These people have a great knowledge of mobile products and success stories, and eager to share that knowledge with the world.”
 
“We are proud to be acknowledged for innovation and leadership by a group we’ve worked diligently to safeguard—the users of mobile products,” said Dennis Tsu, vice president of marketing at AirTight Networks. “As a company, we are dedicated to setting the bar for comprehensive protection for Wi-Fi users—and we will continue to evolve SpectraGuard Enterprise to provide superior and revolutionary answers to the most challenging aspects of wireless security.”
 
SpectraGuard Enterprise is the industry’s first Wireless IPS to integrate automatic device classification and intrusion prevention, pinpoint location tracking and real-time RF mapping into a single, powerful network protection solution. With SpectraGuard Enterprise, users have access to comprehensive protection of their wireless environment - simultaneous detection and prevention of not just one, but multiple threats from a single sensor, and comprehensive threat prevention including updates to counter the most serious attacks - MAC spoofing APs, Evil Twin/honey pot APs and Denial of Service threats.
 
A list of winners in each of this year’s award categories is posted at http://www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm. 
 
About MobileVillage®
A pioneer in developing the enterprise mobile technology market since 1993, MobileVillage® / PDA Inc. is a market and solutions development company dedicated to advancing mobile and wireless enterprise computing within select vertical and horizontal market segments. The company has fostered countless technical and professional alliances through conferences; news; product promotions and awards; and "Best of Breed" solution identification. Visit MobileVillage online at www.mobilevillage.com.

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.

Media Contacts:
Della Lowe
AirTight Networks
Tel: +1 (650) 934 8191
della.lowe@airtightnetworks.com