AirDefense Wins Prestigious Red Herring
100 Innovators Award
Atlanta - December 10, 2004 - AirDefense, the leader
in anywhere, anytime wireless security and monitoring today
announced that it was chosen by Red Herring magazine as the
recipient of the prestigious 2004 "Red Herring Top 100
Innovators Award."
"As
pioneers of the wireless LAN security industry, we are pleased
to be recognized as a company that exemplifies innovation,"
said Anil Khatod, CEO of AirDefense. "The wireless LAN
monitoring industry is one of the fastest growing industries
today. Wireless security remains the weakest link within organizations
and our team at AirDefense is proud to develop solutions that
enable the next generation of enterprises to implement wireless
networks that improve efficiency and productivity in the workplace
and beyond."
Red Herring's editorial staff evaluated more than 1,200 submissions
from 900 companies. The editors used a careful analysis of financial
data as well as subjective criteria, including quality of management,
execution of strategy and dedication to research and development.
"Selection for the Top 100 Innovators Award puts a company
in an elite group. The editors worked hard to identify the companies
who will benefit from the important technology trends in the
coming year," said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red
Herring. The winners were announced at the Red Herring Fall
Conference on December 7, 2004, in Monterey, Calif. and will
be published in the December 13 issue.
This year's Red Herring Top 100 Innovators Award further validates
the company's growth and position as the leader in wireless
intrusion prevention systems. AirDefense recently announced
the integration of its technology with Cisco's Aironet Wireless
Local Area Network (WLAN) infrastructure. AirDefense also recently
launched AirDefense Enterprise 6.0, the industry's first Self-Managing™
intrusion prevention system (IPS) and AirDefense Personal, a
Windows-based software module that protects the mobile worker.
The AirDefense family of products provides wireless intrusion
prevention based on patent-pending technology that identifies
wireless activities anywhere, anytime. The flagship product,
AirDefense Enterprise, uses distributed sensors to monitor the
airwaves and communicate back to a central server appliance.
The server correlates and analyzes the data to provide scalable,
centralized management of all wireless deployments by providing
rogue detection, policy enforcement, intrusion prevention and
health monitoring of the wireless network.
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About AirDefense, Inc.
AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless
security and monitoring. The company's products provide the
most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy
enforcement and intrusion protection both inside and outside
an organization's four walls. AirDefense's enterprise-class
products scale to support everything from single offices to
organizations with hundreds of locations. Founded in 2001, AirDefense
is based in Alpharetta, GA and services hundreds of government
agencies and blue chip corporations. For more information, please
visit http://www.airdefense.net or call 770.663.8115.
