SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the southern African distributor for AirDefense, today announced that the latter's flagship product, AirDefense Enterprise 7.0, has been chosen as a finalist in the SC Magazine Awards competition for the third straight year.
With more Fortune 500 companies using AirDefense Enterprise 7.0 than any other company in the industry, it comes as no surprise that AirDefense is once again a finalist in the Wireless Security category.
The 2007 SC Magazine Awards winners will be announced on Tuesday, 6 February 2007, during the RSA Conference. This year's awards competition has 350 companies competing for 29 titles, making it the world's leading awards programme for the information security industry.
"Innovations such as we've seen from AirDefense demonstrate the vibrancy and vitality of the IT security industry," commented SC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Illena Armstrong. "They represent breakthroughs that will benefit our readers and, in turn, corporate users of technology."
AirDefense Enterprise has won several industry awards over the years and in a recent review of wireless IDS/IPS solutions appearing in Network Computing magazine, AirDefense Enterprise 7.0 outperformed all competitors in overall functionality. Among the key AirDefense Enterprise 7.0 features receiving top marks in the review were its location tracking capabilities, superior sensor design and implementation and its extensive forensic information, with minute-by-minute device detail.
"SC Magazine naming AirDefense an award finalist for the third year in a row is validation of the superiority of AirDefense's wireless LAN security platform, and illustrates why Enterprise 7.0 is the security solution of choice for more than 600 enterprises across the globe," added David Thomas, vice-president - product strategy at AirDefense.
AirDefense Enterprise 7.0, the most comprehensive wireless LAN intrusion detection/prevention solution in the security industry, automatically responds to threats according to appropriate business process and compliance requirements on wireless and wired networks. AirDefense also launched AirDefense Mobile 4.0 in August 2006, with an analysis engine built on the award-winning, patented technology used in AirDefense Enterprise 7.0, and that provides network administrators with more than 100 security and performance-based alarms.
For further information, please contact Bianca Maritz at telephone (011) 790 2500; fax (011) 790 2599; e-mail biancam@securedata.co.za.
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AirDefense is 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. It is ranked among Red Herring's Top 100 Private Companies in North America and its 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, USA, and serves hundreds of government agencies and blue chip corporations.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier value-added distributor & solution provider of perimeter, network and endpoint information security and risk management solutions. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for AirDefense, Application Security, Check Point Software Technologies, Cibecs, eEye, Network Engines, Precise Biometrics, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard Software, TippingPoint Technologies and Websense. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
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ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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