AirDefense and Department of Defense to Present at The 2005 Mobile and Wireless Security Solutions Conference

Business Wire, May 2, 2005

ATLANTA -- AirDefense, the leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security, today announced that President and CEO Anil Khatod and members of the Department of Defense's (DoD) Joint Forces Command Joint Experimentation Directorate team will speak at the Mobile and Wireless Security Solutions Conference on Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at 12:30 p.m. The conference is being held at the Executive Conference Center NRECA Headquarters Building in Arlington, VA and will enable corporate decision makers and IT managers to protect their wireless networks and mobile devices from wireless and mobile security threats.

Derek Krein, J9 security and wireless engineer, and Tony Cerri, J9 experimentation engineering department lead of JFCOM, will discuss the challenges the DoD faced and how they securely deployed and maintained the agency's WLAN. Khatod will discuss the most common wireless LAN risks and the need for wireless security. Khatod, Krein and Cerri will answer questions following the presentation.

The J9 deployed a wireless network nearly two years ago to research the benefit wireless could have on their network. Because of the sensitive nature of their work, they turned to AirDefense for wireless security and monitoring of their network data. Since the initial deployment of AirDefense, J9 has been able to expand their deployment and confidently identify and prevent unauthorized wireless devices from entering their network.

Anil Khatod is a telecommunications and networking veteran who joined AirDefense in December 2003 and aided in bringing AirDefense to the forefront of the wireless LAN intrusion prevention security market. Prior to joining AirDefense he was a partner at the venture capital firm Atlas Venture. Khatod is widely known for his achievements as a senior executive with Nortel Networks where in his final position he served as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer. Under his leadership, Nortel's Optical business grew to over $10 billion in revenue.

Tony Cerri and Derek Krein are responsible for the technical support to all J9 experiments and environments. This includes Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Modeling and Simulation (M&S), and Engineering Operations.

About AirDefense, Inc.

AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless intrusion prevention. 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.