AirTight Adds Wi-Fi Captive Portal/Walled Garden to Its Cloud-Based Secure Wi-Fi and PCI Scanning Service; Announcement at 2011 PCI SSC North American Community Meeting

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- At the opening of the 2011 PCI SSC North American Community Meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, AirTight® Networks, the leading provider of wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS) and AirTight Cloud Services™ for PCI wireless compliance scanning and Wi-Fi access, announced the addition of Captive Portal and Walled Garden capabilities to its portfolio of  Cloud Services - a suite of managed services which includes AirTight Secure Wi-Fi™. The new capabilities allow restaurants, hospitality venues and retailers to expand their relationship with customers with Wi-Fi based value-added services such as customized content and e-coupon special deals.  

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Recent studies have shown that 80.5% of respondents prefer retail stores with Wi-Fi versus those without it, 65% would take advantage of Wi-Fi for various reasons and 53% are willing to share their location to receive more relevant content and promotions.(1)

"For enterprises such as retail, hospitality or quick serve restaurants, AirTight Cloud Services provide a secure WLAN network with minimum cost and complexity while satisfying all PCI DSS wireless security requirements at no additional expense," said Jatin Parekh, Vice President of Product Management at AirTight. "The addition of captive portal and walled garden capabilities now allows merchants to expand their interaction with guests to provide opt-in localized content, create loyalty programs and garner in-store customer feedback, all of which are incentives to keep the customer coming back and in the store for longer periods of time."

"AirTight has consistently expanded its product line and added capabilities to help its customers address not only current and emerging wireless threats, but also to keep on top of new trends in technology and business practices," said Laz Corrales, Senior Manager, Information Security, Citrix Systems, Inc. "The addition of managed Cloud Services with Wi-Fi access demonstrates, once again, how forward-thinking AirTight is."

About AirTight cloud Services

Wi-Fi access, which AirTight launched at NRF earlier this year, is offered as hosted, cloud-based, secure Wi-Fi access, PCI scanning, and network security in a single device. AirTight's Cloud platform provides the most cost effective enterprise solution for in-store Wi-Fi plus all the security and centralized management of the traditional WLAN vendors at a very low, all inclusive monthly fee per store. Because the solution was built specifically as a cloud offering, it is infinitely more scalable than a controller based solution.

AirTight Cloud Services are offered as three levels with a simple automated upgrade to any of the other modules as needed:

• AirTight Wi-Fi
  • Wi-Fi access with captive portal/walled garden
  • Wireless IPS
  • Compliance scanning and reporting
  • Real time alerts
• PCI Wireless Compliance
  • Automated compliance scanning and reporting
  • Real time alerts
• Wireless Security
  • Wireless IDS
    • Continuous threat scanning and alerting
    • Performance monitoring
    • Custom reporting
  • Wireless IPS
    • Continuous threat detection
    • Automated threat blocking
    • Performance monitoring
    • Customized reporting and alerting
  • Real time alerts

The combination of simplicity of deployment, ease of use, and a price point that is unmatched in the industry makes it the right choice for organizations who wish to deploy wireless now or in the future. The services offer a radically less expensive alternative to any competitive solution available today.

About AirTight

AirTight Networks is the global leader in wireless security and compliance products and services, providing customers best-of-breed technology to automatically detect, classify, locate and block all current and emerging wireless threats. AirTight offers both the industry's leading wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) and the world's first controller-less Wi-Fi access point and provided as AirTight Cloud Services™.  AirTight's award-winning solutions are used by customers globally in the financial, government, retail and hospitality, manufacturing, transportation, education, health care, telecom, and technology industries. AirTight owns the seminal patents for wireless intrusion prevention technology with 18 U.S. patents and three international patents granted (UK, Australia and Japan) and more than 20 additional patents pending. AirTight Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA. For more information please visit www.airtightnetworks.com

AirTight Networks and the AirTight Networks logo are registered trademarks; AirTight, SpectraGuard, AirTight Cloud Services and AirTight Secure Wi-Fi are trademarks of AirTight Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

(1)  Sources:
2011 Devicescape Wi-Fi Report
2011 Jiwire Mobile Audience Insights Report

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