Today AirDefense, the innovator and market leader of anywhere, anytime wireless security, announced an exciting new extension of the product portfolio: AirDefense Enterprise 7.2.
AirDefense Enterprise 7.2 introduces industry-best features that enable compliance with regulatory requirements, facilitate real-time troubleshooting and reduce administration overhead.
Enterprise 7.2 is the most comprehensive WLAN protection product suite ever! It features a robust new reporting engine, a sophisticated wireless troubleshooting module, intelligent event-management with new correlation algorithms and new system administration features, allowing the effortless management of hundreds of wireless sites.
The new features in Enterprise 7.2 include:
* New reporting engine: The engine included in Enterprise 7.2 enables network administrators to build their own highly customised reports. AirDefense already includes built-in reports covering a variety of wireless network activity and fulfilling compliance requirements for auditors.
With the new reporting engine, administrators can customise reports to meet the specific requirements of their internal audit groups or external auditors. One example of such a requirement is monitoring of the payment card industry (PCI) requirements.
* AirDefense LiveRF Module: The AirDefense LiveRF Module, powered by Motorola technology, provides the industry's only real-time assessment of wireless network performance.
With LiveRF, administrators can troubleshoot wireless connectivity, throughput, capacity and interference issues from a central console without having to send administrators out to remote locations.
LiveRF provides a real-time snapshot of wireless coverage as well as performance, allowing administrators to determine the source of performance degradation or analyse how additional applications will affect the wireless network.
* Intelligent event management: AirDefense Enterprise 7.2 carries out per-device threat assessment using algorithms that clearly identify the highest threat for a particular location or across the organisation.
These changes result in significant reduction in the number of total events that administrators need to manage on a daily basis, and retain the unique event details making forensic investigations possible.
* Set and forget configuration: With AirDefense Enterprise 7.2, administrators can relax while the system handles daily configuration tasks automatically. Using sophisticated rules, AirDefense classifies devices without requiring any user interaction.
AirDefense Enterprise7.2 adds support for popular wireless infrastructure systems from Nortel and Enterasys coupled with existing support for Motorola, Cisco and Trapeze infrastructures.
* Newly designed user interface: With the average AirDefense Enterprise system seeing tens of thousands of wireless devices, the Enterprise 7.2 release includes a newly designed user interface.
The new system setup wizard enables administrators to have the appliance configured for the most popular options in a matter of minutes. Daily administration is simplified by offering multiple, simultaneous forensic investigations and more expedient search through the device tree.
Securing networks and information is a race against unauthorised access, hackers and regulatory mandates; AirDefense is committed to continue to innovate to stay ahead of malicious wireless attacks and unauthorised access, by offering total wireless protection for our customers' networks.
Our corporate commitment remains to be the world's leading and most innovative wireless security company. We are focused on enabling our customers to roll out wireless networks securely and productively; to protect wireless and wired networks from unauthorised access; and to provide comprehensive regulatory compliance to help maximize return on wireless LAN infrastructure.
AirDefense partners with Blue Turtle Technologies in southern Africa.
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AirDefense, the market leader in anywhere anytime wireless security and monitoring, and is trusted by more Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organisations and high-security government agencies for enterprise wireless protection than any other wireless security provider.
Ranked among Red Herring's Top 100 Private Companies in North America, AirDefense products provide the most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy enforcement and intrusion prevention, both inside and outside an organisation's physical locations and wired networks.
Common Criteria-certified, AirDefense enterprise-class products scale to support single offices as well as organisations with hundreds of locations around the globe. Founded in 2001, AirDefense is based in Alpharetta, Georgia, and serves hundreds of government agencies and blue chip corporates.
Blue Turtle Technologies
Blue Turtle Technologies provides solutions for optimising, enhancing and leveraging existing IT investment, and supporting the cost-effective delivery of new technology initiatives. With experience from mainframe to desktop, Blue Turtle delivers solutions for the effective management of IT infrastructures, employing innovative software products, backed by 'best-practice' implementation services.
Blue Turtle's strategy leverages 'best-in-class' software products brought together from leading international and South African software providers, to deliver compelling and cost-effective technology management solutions to customers.
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