AirDefense Receives Allowance of 8^th and 9^th Patent for Wireless Intrusion Prevention

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AirDefense, the innovator that launched the wireless LAN security market, has recently been notified by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that the company’s 8^th and 9^th patents have been allowed. With seven granted, two allowed and eighteen patents pending, AirDefense owns dominant patents in the area of wireless intrusion prevention and wireless troubleshooting.

AirDefense’s 8^th patent titled “Method and system for encrypted network management and intrusion detection,” extends the fundamentals of wireless intrusion detection through multi-dimensional analysis to encrypted wireless networks. Tests such as a signature test, protocol test, statistical anomaly test and policy test are applied to determine whether a particular communication represents a potential intrusion or a security violation. This patent has been filed in several foreign countries as well.

AirDefense’s 9^th patent titled “Systems and methods for adaptively scanning for wireless communications,” covers intelligent scanning techniques that maximize visibility in wireless communications that could happen on several different radio frequency channels. Adaptive scanning creates effective monitoring on multiple channels based on traffic, threats and historical behavior.

AirDefense’s patents cover the broadest scope of intellectual property in the wireless intrusion prevention industry to ensure that the hundreds of blue chip corporations using our products are protected 24x7 against threats,” said Dr. Amit Sinha, chief technology officer, AirDefense. “These latest allowed patents further support and strengthen AirDefense’s industry leading position amongst WIPS vendors.”

AirDefense has an additional eighteen patents pending at the USPTO. These patents extend AirDefense’s intellectual property into broader areas such as security for emerging wireless networks, interference classification, remote performance troubleshooting, bandwidth optimization, forensic analysis, endpoint wireless security, legacy encryption protection and alarm management.

On March 11, AirDefense launched AirDefense Enterprise 7.3, the most comprehensive and patented wireless intrusion prevention platform featuring the first software-only Spectrum Analysis solution. AirDefense recently received the only ‘Best Buy’ rating from SC Magazine amongst wireless intrusion prevention software companies in a 2008 independent product review. The company was named one of 2008’s Top 40 Most Innovative Companies by the Technology Association of Georgia. AirDefense was the only wireless intrusion prevention company to receive a ‘2007 Reader’s Choice Award’ from Information Security ™ magazine and Frost & Sullivan named the company the 2007 ‘Market Leader’ in wireless intrusion prevention.

About AirDefense

AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security. The company is trusted by more Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations and high-security government agencies for enterprise wireless protection than any other company. AirDefense products provide the most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy enforcement and intrusion prevention, both inside and outside an organization’s physical locations and wired networks. Common Criteria-certified, AirDefense enterprise-class products scale to support single offices as well as organizations with hundreds of locations around the globe. Founded in 2001, AirDefense is based in Atlanta, GA, and serves 700 government agencies and blue chip corporations. For more information, please visit http://www.airdefense.net or call 770.663.8115.