AirTight’s SpectraGuard Wireless Intrusion Prevention System Integrates with HP ProCurve Network Infrastructure to Provide Seamless Wireless Security

Mountain View, CA - January 26, 2009 - To provide customers with a reliable and cost-effective wireless intrusion prevention solution for 802.11abg and 802.11n environments, AirTight^® Networks today announced it has joined the HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (HP ProCurve ONE) partner alliance. AirTight, the leading provider of wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS), is partnering with HP ProCurve to provide a seamless integration of wireless security into any network infrastructure using AirTight's SpectraGuard Enterprise product.

Customers who have deployed HP ProCurve 5406zl, 5412zl, or 8212zl switches can run AirTight's SpectraGuard® Enterprise server application on the HP ProCurve ONE Services zl Module. This module is a blade for the HP ProCurve 5400zl and 8200zl Switch series that hosts applications onto a common platform, helping enterprises meet their needs to accelerate business growth, reduce costs and mitigate risks.

The Airtight SpectraGuard Enterprise server works in conjunction with AirTight’s SpectraGuard sensors or HP ProCurve MSM320, MSM325, and MSM335 access points to manage costs and optimize rack space.

"As wireless becomes a pervasive technology for connecting users to enterprise networks, wireless security has emerged as a critical requirement for IT departments globally," said David King, Chairman and CEO, AirTight Networks. "We are pleased to work with an innovator like HP ProCurve in offering AirTight's industry leading wireless intrusion prevention technology to enterprises worldwide. By creating an open architecture model for its HP ProCurve ONE program, HP ProCurve has demonstrated a commitment to provide its networking customers with complete security and management capabilities from a diverse ecosystem."

"Our customers need a way to increase the speed of business technology change," said Marius Haas, senior vice president and general manager, HP ProCurve. "The HP ProCurve ONE program allows alliance partners to develop applications with HP ProCurve infrastructure to help customers address those challenges quickly and cost effectively."

AirTight's SpectraGuard Enterprise provides superior WIPS technology to protect enterprise networks against current and emerging wireless threats. AirTight's patented WIPS technology automatically detects and classifies all wireless devices and connections enabling network and security professionals to precisely locate and automatically block wireless threats - including rogue and misconfigured APs, denial of service attacks, ad hoc client bridging and wi-phishing threats, and WEP/WPA cracking attacks.

SpectraGuard Benefits

• Protect sensitive data from wireless security breaches
• Enforce Wi-Fi security policies and administer Wi-Fi guest access
• Simplify regulatory compliance reporting and adherence
• Ensure optimal WLAN performance
• Minimize IT effort to secure your WLAN network
• Solutions that help to optimize your business outcomes

SpectraGuard Features

• Comprehensive wireless intrusion detection and prevention
• Precise threat location tracking
• Event-based alerting, notification and forensics
• WLAN performance monitoring & troubleshooting
• Automated regulatory compliance scanning and reporting

AirTight is the only WIPS vendor to receive a second consecutive "Positive" rating by Gartner in its recent MarketScope, and its products have consistently outperformed its competitors in other head-to-head, in-depth evaluations (conducted by Tolly and Information Security). Frost and Sullivan awarded AirTight its 2008 North America Network Endpoint Protection Customer Value Enhancement Award and the 2008 Market Share Advancement Award for demonstrating excellence in increasing market share within its industry. Recent magazine reviews in PCPro and SC Magazine respectively have awarded five stars to SpectraGuard Enterprise and praised it as "a wireless security solution that’s easy to deploy, elegantly simple and frighteningly effective," and "a unique wireless security solution that can automatically classify and control access points (APs) and wireless clients."

About AirTight Networks
AirTight Networks is the global leader in wireless security and compliance solutions providing customers best-of-breed technology to automatically detect, classify, locate and block all current and emerging wireless threats. AirTight offers both the industry’s leading wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) and the world’s first wireless vulnerability management (WMV) security-as-a-service (SaaS). AirTight’s award-winning solutions are used by customers globally in the financial, government, retail, manufacturing, transportation, education, healthcare, telecom, and technology industries. AirTight owns the seminal patents for wireless intrusion prevention technology with 12 U.S. patents and two international patents granted (UK and Australia), and more than 25 additional patents pending. AirTight Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA. For more information please visit www.airtightnetworks.com

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AirTight Networks
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