SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the southern African distributor for AirDefense, today announced that the latter's product protects enterprises from the rising threat of rogue wireless devices based on the draft IEEE 802.11n standard.
AirDefense Enterprise 7.0 provides the most comprehensive, scalable wireless LAN security and monitoring solution available in the market today. This next-generation wireless protection platform detects and eliminates standard and pre-standard compliant rogue wireless devices and offers the industry's most extensive event library, including more than 200 performance and security events, 50% more than that of any competitor.
"For effective wireless intrusion protection, sensors must scan all four dimensions - space, time, frequency and protocol," commented Dr Amit Sinha, chief technology officer of AirDefense. "Our distributed, 24x7 sensing architecture, with intelligent frequency scanning of established and emerging protocols, allows our enterprise customers to rest assured that there are no wireless gaps in their network security."
The IEEE 802.11n Task Group (TGn), chartered with developing the next-generation wireless LAN standards capable of providing Ethernet type throughput, approved the Enhanced Wireless Consortium proposal as the draft version of the 802.11n standard in January 2006. Wireless LAN chipmakers such as Broadcom, Marvell and Atheros subsequently announced the availability of draft compliant chipsets.
Network equipment vendors such as Netgear, Linksys and D-Link have recently announced the availability of wireless access points (APs) and client cards capable of peak physical layer speeds of 270Mbps and more. While enterprises will wait for the 802.11n standard to be ratified before upgrading their wireless infrastructure, consumer adoption has already started. The AirDefense system is capable of detecting and blocking these devices, should they show up as rogues within the enterprise perimeter.
"Consumers want the latest and greatest wireless networking gear. With prices of 802.11n APs and clients dropping and the huge push from local electronics stores, it is only a matter of time before an enthusiastic employee puts one on my network and compromises it," added Brian Brindle of Carilion Health Systems. "Knowing that these new rogue devices will be caught and disabled by AirDefense is very reassuring."
For further information, please contact Bianca Maritz at telephone (011) 257 8600; fax (011) 257 8699; 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 IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, endpoint security, network security, intrusion prevention and authentication and identity management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, out sourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for USA-based TippingPoint Technologies as well as for AirDefense, Application Security, eEye, Network Engines, Precise Biometrics, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard and Websense. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
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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