BJC Healthcare Purchases AirDefense's WEP Cloaking™ Module to Protect Its Hospitals against Wireless Intrusions

Business Wire, August 1, 2007

AirDefense to Protect BJC's Existing Investment in Legacy Handheld Devices that Support the WEP Protocol

ATLANTA -- AirDefense, Inc., the innovator that launched the wireless LAN security market, today announced BJC Healthcare expanded its three year relationship with the company by purchasing its patented WEP Cloaking[TM] module through their premier value-added reseller Enterprise Consulting Group. AirDefense's WEP Cloaking module is the first and only technology designed to help healthcare organizations, retailers and global 1,000 enterprises using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol to protect their wireless networks.

By using the WEP Cloaking module organizations are able to bridge their investment in wireless based devices that support only WEP, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in immediate hardware device upgrade costs while protecting against well known vulnerabilities in the WEP-protocol. WEP Cloaking significantly raises the security threshold protecting organizations against vulnerabilities in utilizing legacy encryption devices during a phased path to Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA or WPA2).

AirDefense Enterprise is the industry's most comprehensive WLAN protection platform and is used by more than 700 enterprises, many of whom need to enforce wireless security and provide compliance reports, forensic records of wireless activity and real-time notification of wireless intrusions. The WEP Cloaking module provides a new dimension of protection that can act as the security supplement for WEP encryption.

AirDefense's WEP Cloaking module is available today and can be seamlessly added to existing AirDefense Enterprise systems or deployed as part of a newly purchased AirDefense Enterprise system. AirDefense provides a complete suite of solutions that secures wireless networks and protects an extended mobile enterprise against all threats and attacks. For more information about AirDefense's WEP Cloaking module, please visit: http://www.airdefense.net/products/features/wep.php.> "As one of the biggest healthcare providers in the United Sates, we are proud to be providing our best of class wireless intrusion prevention products to BJC's hospitals throughout the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and mid-Missouri regions," said Mike Potts, president and CEO, AirDefense. "AirDefense's WEP Cloaking module is providing protection for a number of different types of companies in healthcare, retail and other blue chip corporations that rely on WEP like BJC Healthcare while bridging the gap to new security platforms such as WPA over a period of time."

About AirDefense

AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security. The company is trusted by more Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations and high-security government agencies for enterprise wireless protection than any other company. AirDefense products provide the most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy enforcement and intrusion prevention, both inside and outside an organization's physical locations and wired networks. Common Criteria-certified, AirDefense enterprise-class products scale to support single offices as well as organizations with hundreds of locations around the globe. Founded in 2001, AirDefense is based in Atlanta, GA and serves more than 700 government agencies and blue chip corporations. For more information, please visit http://www.airdefense.net or call 770.663.8115.