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Atlanta – February 20, 2008 - AirDefense, the innovator that launched the wireless LAN security market, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has notified the company that a 7th patent has been allowed. With six granted patents, one allowed patent and twenty patents pending, AirDefense owns all dominant patents in the area of wireless intrusion prevention and wireless troubleshooting.

AirDefense’s 7th patent is titled “Systems and methods for adaptive monitoring with bandwidth constraints.” It covers essential techniques needed for remote monitoring of wireless networks in the presence of restricted network bandwidth. Bandwidth efficiency is critical to organizations with distributed operations like those in the retail industry. Several retailers have stores and distribution centers with limited network bandwidth connecting them to headquarters. The ability to monitor such distributed wireless networks centrally, over a limited bandwidth, and without loss in wireless event visibility or degraded system performance is a key requirement.

“Bandwidth efficiency has been an important architectural component of AirDefense Enterprise,” said Dr. Amit Sinha, chief technology officer, AirDefense. “AirDefense Enterprise can provide full-fidelity, 24x7, wireless monitoring and intrusion prevention with less than 3Kbps of average bandwidth between a sensor and the central server. This is an industry benchmark and AirDefense has service level agreements with large enterprises guaranteeing minimal bandwidth usage without sacrificing performance.”

AirDefense has an additional twenty 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.

AirDefense recently received the only ‘Best Buy’ rating from SC Magazine amongst wireless intrusion prevention software companies in an independent product review. Also, AirDefense was the only wireless intrusion prevention company to receive a ‘2007 Reader’s Choice Award’ from Information Security ™ magazine. Frost & Sullivan also named AirDefense the 2007 ‘market leader’ in wireless intrusion prevention. AirDefense was also named one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies by the Technology Association of Georgia.

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 nearly 700 government agencies and blue chip corporations. For more information, please visit http://www.airdefense.net or call 770.663.8115.

AirDefense Contact:
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Kristin K. Callaway
AirDefense Public Relations
770-843-5256
kcallaway@airdefense.net