AirMagnet Inc.

AirMagnet® provides enterprise-hardened wireless LAN security and management solutions that enable CIOs and IT staff to secure, manage and troubleshoot all of their WLANs worldwide, on-site or remotely. The company was founded in 2001, shipped its first products in April 2002 and in three years' time amassed more than 4,500 customers. AirMagnet also counts over 75 Fortune 100 companies as customers.

AirMagnet solutions come in portable configurations for use by IT personnel, as well as enterprise configurations that deliver comprehensive, 24x7 intrusion prevention for distributed wireless networks of any size or scale. In thousands of deployments worldwide, customers consistently find that AirMagnet solutions minimize security risks and legal exposure, maximize performance and productivity, and optimize cost and IT staff resources better than any other products in the industry.

AirMagnet solutions are engineered specifically to address the unique needs of wireless networks. By addressing the entire cycle of WLAN deployment—from site survey to security auditing, ongoing security and performance management to expansion planning—AirMagnet products meet a critical need for the wireless enterprise.

The Wireless Market
Wireless networks based on the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g standards are being implemented in ever-increasing numbers in corporations worldwide. According to the Forrester Research, 60 percent of enterprises are upgrading or deploying WLAN networks in 2005. Of those deployments, vendors are reporting that average access points per deployment are doubling, from 75 to 150, resulting in larger networks to manage. IDC expects that the enterprise segment will account for 69 percent of the total WLAN revenue by 2005.
Vertical industry segments such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail, education and automotive are incorporating wireless connectivity as a critical part of getting business done. For instance, retail and manufacturing companies are adopting Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to streamline distribution methods and assembly lines. In many cases, network downtime could result in the loss of inventory and millions of dollars in revenue.

The growth of Wireless LANs in the enterprise is being driven by the increasing availability of solutions and rapid decline in hardware costs, combined with the wide appeal of increased mobility, flexibility and convenience among enterprise end users. The inclination of enterprise end users to deploy their own WLAN equipment without consulting IT managers or asking their permission has contributed to an ad hoc , unmanaged proliferation of Wi-Fi technology.

The price of ad hoc implementation is often a significant gap in a company's network security. Non-technical employees who install Wi-Fi hardware without the knowledge of IT often do not follow corporate security policies or set up appropriate security protocols, creating network vulnerabilities below the radar screen of the IT department. The emergence of new protocols and authentication measures like TKIP, WPA, AES, Cisco's LEAP and 802.11i promise to improve WLAN security, but will only be effective if they are implemented universally. As WLAN s proliferate, this becomes an increasingly difficult task. WLAN's viral growth not only affects network security, but also impedes network performance and reliability. Any number of issues indigenous to wireless environments—including channel interference, bandwidth constraints and the introduction of unidentified Access Points and Stations--can affect the performance and availability of WLANs.

Other network administration tools on the market today are "adapted solutions" that help solve some of the problems in WLAN administration, but were actually designed for the needs of wireline administration instead of the wireless environment. None of these tools deliver a comprehensive network administration solution that truly addresses the needs of network and security administrators, leaving IT professionals ill-equipped to deal with the rapid proliferation of WLANs in their environment.

More recently, a spate of wireless LAN "switch" vendors have entered the market, touting monitoring, management and security functions as features to differentiate themselves from other wireless LAN infrastructure players. Connectivity is still their primary function, however, and their solutions offer limited diagnostic capabilities that are not sufficient to ensure a secure and reliable Wi-Fi environment. Historically, even wired equipment vendors have been unable to deliver fully self-healing or self-diagnosing systems. As a vendor-agnostic, third party overlay designed to troubleshoot any wireless environment, AirMagnet's sole focus is to provide a comprehensive solution to address every security or performance issue that may arise on a wireless LAN. For a basic Access Point network, WLAN “switch” architecture or mixed hardware environment, AirMagnet Enterprise is the only method available to enforce comprehensive wireless intrusion prevention.

The airmagnet solution
AirMagnet is the choice of security-conscious CIOs and IT managers for enterprises with strategic, complex or critically important wireless infrastructures. Whether the job calls for enterprise-wide wireless security, design and installation of a new network, troubleshooting connections or optimizing performance, AirMagnet products—both portable analyzers and Enterprise wireless IPS—consistently meet all the needs of network and security professionals

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