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AirDefense NAMED among
“TOP 10 MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES IN GEORGIA”

With First-to-Market Wireless LAN Security Solutions and 18 Patents Pending, AirDefense Selected to Present at Georgia Technology Summit: Innovation on the Edge With Keynote Speaker Ray Kurzweil

Atlanta, GA- February 7, 2006- AirDefense, the innovator that launched the wireless LAN security market, this morning announced that it was named one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Georgia by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). The award was presented to AirDefense’s President and CEO Anil Khatod during a reception at the 2006 Georgia Technology Summit: Innovation on the Edge.

As part of the gala event, AirDefense is also exhibiting its solutions, including AirDefense Enterprise, the most secure, scalable and cost-effective wireless intrusion prevention and troubleshooting solution, and AirDefense Personal, which provides comprehensive real-time threat detection and automated response for mobile workers, enabling employees to conduct business securely from the home, airport, customer sites and other hotspots.

The Top 10 Innovators were chosen based on a number of criteria, including: degree of innovation; scope and financial impact of innovation; likelihood of success; and promotion of Georgia’s innovative efforts nationally and internationally.

“AirDefense is thrilled to be included among this select group of the most innovative companies in Georgia and it is a credit to the dedication and commitment of dozens of hard working employees,” according to AirDefense’s Khatod. “Across North America and in nearly every corner of the world AirDefense is securing wireless LANs at many of the largest enterprise corporations, including one third of the Fortune 100, as well as leading government agencies, retailers, healthcare organizations and financial services firms.”

AirDefense is a rapidly growing company that in December, 2005 launched AirDefense Enteprise 7.0, the most comprehensive wireless LAN intrusion detection/prevention product in the security industry. Air Defense Enterprise 7.0 automatically responds to threats according to appropriate business process and compliance requirements on wireless and wired networks. AirDefense also launched AirDefense Personal 3.0 in January, 2006, a wireless end-point security solution for mobile workers that eliminates wireless bridging, probing laptop, phishing and evil twin threats.

Delivering the keynote at the Summit is celebrated technology inventor, author, entrepreneur and futurist Ray Kurzweil. Called “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal and the “ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes, Kurzweil invented several technologies including the first reading machine for the blind. He has received 12 honorary doctorates, seven national and international film awards, and was inducted into the National Inventor Hall of Fame in 2002.

Other speakers at the event include one of the world’s foremost security experts, Chris Klaus, the founder of Internet Security Systems and Kaneva, Inc., Randy Spratt, executive vice president and chief information officer at McKesson Corporation and James, F. McDonald, TAG’s 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. For more information about the Summit, visit www.tagonline.org.

About AirDefense
AirDefense, the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security and monitoring, is trusted by more Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations and high-security government agencies for enterprise wireless protection. Ranked among Red Herring’s Top 100 Private Companies in North America, 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 Alpharetta, GA, and serves hundreds of government agencies and blue chip corporations. For more information, please visit http://www.airdefense.net or call 770.663.8115.

AirDefense Contact:
Bill Keeler/Liz Serotte
Schwartz Communications
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