SecureData Africa, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings, announced that it has been appointed as the distributor for AirTight Networks in the sub-Saharan African region.
“As wireless networking (WiFi) becomes a business utility, the challenge of maximising its efficiencies while minimising the vulnerabilities and risk of intrusion becomes increasingly complex,” said Wayne Olsen, Product and Technology Director at SecureData Africa.
“AirTight SpectraGuard Enterprise provides continuous, automated protection against all current and emerging wireless threats, which can jeopardise sensitive data as well as affecting performance, critical applications and end-user satisfaction. Unauthorised access points (APs) connected to the enterprise wired or wireless network are considered rogue APs. Rogue APs are a serious threat as they allow unauthorised wireless access to private networks. Rogue APs can appear on the enterprise network either by na"ive acts of employees, eg using smartphones or tablets, or by malicious attacks by cyber criminals or insiders. With AirTight, we can enable enterprises to protect both wired and wireless networks and mobile clients from wireless vulnerabilities.
“We now have the ability to deliver around-the-clock threat monitoring and automatic intrusion prevention that manages wireless network security and performance to ensure maximum capacity and uptime. With continuous scanning of the airwaves, our customers are automatically protected against data leakage through the wireless network. Within minutes, administrators can proactively detect, classify, block and eliminate threats with the industry's most accurate and robust automated wireless intrusion prevention (WIPS) system,” continued Olsen.
“Unauthorised wireless access points on the wired network are one of the biggest problems facing all organisations today. The millions of dollars spent securing the wire is bypassed the instant a rogue access point enters the network. AirTight needed a strong partner in this region who understands the challenges posed by the proliferation of WiFi and WiFi-enabled devices entering the enterprise and who has both the technical and sales ability to take our solutions to market. With SecureData's proven security background, they were a logical choice when we decided to enter the African market,” said Johan van Der Welle, Managing Director for AirTight Networks EMEA.
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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 WiFi security threats, while allowing organisations to better manage their WLAN environment and comply with emerging wireless compliance standards (i.e. PCI). The Ccmpany'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 WiFi 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' multi-tenant 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, telecoms, technology, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and education sectors. AirTight owns the seminal patents for wireless intrusion prevention technology with 24 US 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, California. For more information, please visit: www.airtightnetworks.com or SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
SecureData
SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity information security solutions and risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services.
SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, pre-sales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical.
For more information, please visit http://www.securedata.co.za
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