AirDefense launched today consumer and enterprise versions of a product designed to help protect users from wireless security risks while their laptops are logged on at coffee shops, libraries, airports, hotels and other hotspots.
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The AirDefense Personal 2.0 agent is a free product designed to help protect consumers from today's growing list of wireless security risks, such as identity theft and denial-of-service attacks.
While the personal agent is freely available for download, the company also has launched an enterprise software module designed to give corporations the ability to download AirDefence Personal 2.0 software to employee laptops through a centralized management interface.
The consumer version of AirDefense Personal agent allows the user to monitor a laptop's wireless connection for potential security risks. Consumers can track malicious or accidental wireless activities and wireless misconfigurations and close their wireless connection if a security threat is discovered.
Anywhere Protection
AirDefense Personal 2.0 is automatically integrated with AirDefense's flagship product, AirDefense Enterprise. The combined suite is designed to help network admins protect enterprise-information assets from more than 200 possible threats, even when users are wirelessly tethered to the network from beyond the corporate firewalls.
Policy profiles that are centrally defined on AirDefense Enterprise are automatically downloaded to each mobile user. If threats are discovered, AirDefense Personal notifies the user and sends the alerts to AirDefense Enterprise for central reporting and notification, thus enforcing corporate policies and providing complete protection for the mobile worker, regardless of location.
"The issue of end-user protection at hotspots and other unsecured wireless networks is a growing concern for security and I.T. professionals," said Anil Khatod, president and CEO of AirDefense. "With the number of wireless security breaches on the rise, AirDefense now offers the best of both worlds for consumers and corporations looking to protect proprietary information from would-be thieves."
Safe Wireless Tips
In releasing the free software, AirDefense security experts said that consumers should take additional precautions to protect themselves from wireless security risks. These suggestions include installing personal firewalls, all available security patches and entering passwords only on Web sites that include SSL protection so that their information is encrypted.
The company suggests that laptop users logged on remotely to their corporate networks through a remote hotspot should perform only casual Web-surfing tasks. Activities such as balancing checking accounts or accessing 401(k) reports place personal information at risk when connected through a hotspot.
The company also said hotspot users also should follow the same safe-computing strategies recommended for working on desktop computers. For instance, they should never click on a link in an e-mail they receive that claims to be from their bank or another online vendor.
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The AirDefense Personal 2.0 agent is a free product designed to help protect consumers from today's growing list of wireless security risks, such as identity theft and denial-of-service attacks.
While the personal agent is freely available for download, the company also has launched an enterprise software module designed to give corporations the ability to download AirDefence Personal 2.0 software to employee laptops through a centralized management interface.
The consumer version of AirDefense Personal agent allows the user to monitor a laptop's wireless connection for potential security risks. Consumers can track malicious or accidental wireless activities and wireless misconfigurations and close their wireless connection if a security threat is discovered.
Anywhere Protection
AirDefense Personal 2.0 is automatically integrated with AirDefense's flagship product, AirDefense Enterprise. The combined suite is designed to help network admins protect enterprise-information assets from more than 200 possible threats, even when users are wirelessly tethered to the network from beyond the corporate firewalls.
Policy profiles that are centrally defined on AirDefense Enterprise are automatically downloaded to each mobile user. If threats are discovered, AirDefense Personal notifies the user and sends the alerts to AirDefense Enterprise for central reporting and notification, thus enforcing corporate policies and providing complete protection for the mobile worker, regardless of location.
"The issue of end-user protection at hotspots and other unsecured wireless networks is a growing concern for security and I.T. professionals," said Anil Khatod, president and CEO of AirDefense. "With the number of wireless security breaches on the rise, AirDefense now offers the best of both worlds for consumers and corporations looking to protect proprietary information from would-be thieves."
Safe Wireless Tips
In releasing the free software, AirDefense security experts said that consumers should take additional precautions to protect themselves from wireless security risks. These suggestions include installing personal firewalls, all available security patches and entering passwords only on Web sites that include SSL protection so that their information is encrypted.
The company suggests that laptop users logged on remotely to their corporate networks through a remote hotspot should perform only casual Web-surfing tasks. Activities such as balancing checking accounts or accessing 401(k) reports place personal information at risk when connected through a hotspot.
The company also said hotspot users also should follow the same safe-computing strategies recommended for working on desktop computers. For instance, they should never click on a link in an e-mail they receive that claims to be from their bank or another online vendor.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20050919/tc_nf/38201;_ylt=Aoh291b10KJXjxSxFbQ7zG8jtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
