By Rajani Baburajan TMCnet Contributor
AirTight Networks, a provider in wireless security and compliance solutions, announced it has been granted U.S. patent number 7,710,933 for automated Wi-Fi client classification techniques by the United States Patent and Trademark Office or “USPTO.”
AirTight’s automated Wi-Fi client classification, offered through its SpectraGuard Wireless Intrusion (News – Alert) Prevention System or “WIPS” simplifies wireless security policy enforcement for the network administrator by eliminating the manual effort involved in keeping an up-to-date inventory of wireless devices and chasing a huge volume of alarms, company officials said.
The AirTight system’s way of behavioral analysis automatically classifies wireless devices into appropriate user categories to ensure that authorized users do not wander to neighboring wireless networks or “WLAN” and unauthorized users do not access the enterprise wireless network.
According to a recent article by Matt Carrier citing Forrester (News – Alert) research results, almost half of U.S. and European businesses surveyed are embracing the notion of allowing personally-owned devices access to a secure corporate network. One-quarter of businesses surveyed do provide full support to at least some personal devices, and another 21 percent provide at least limited support.
“The proliferation of devices equipped with Wi-Fi and the number of personal devices coming into the enterprise make it a daunting task for any network administrator to manually inventory all the devices in the environment, to accurately classify them in order to enforce appropriate security policies,” Hemant Chaskar, director of Technology at AirTight, said.
“AirTight’s SpectraGuard has built in intelligence to understand which users are authorized, which are unauthorized and which are friendly neighbors, no matter what wireless devices they are using, and to automatically enforce appropriate wireless security policies on them,” Chaskar said.
Customers globally in the financial, government, retail, manufacturing, transportation, education, health care, telecom, and technology industries use AirTight’s solutions.
Earlier this year, AirTight Networks announced the latest SpectraGuard 6.0 with Smart Forensics and Predictive Performance. The wireless security and compliance solution from AirTight Networks provides customers the technology to automatically detect, classify, locate and block all current and emerging wireless threats.
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani’s articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Erin Harrison
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