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"Coulda had a V-8." That was my knee-jerk reaction when AirTight Networks told me it planned to launch software-as-a-service (SaaS) for securing wireless LANs. Duh! Why hasn't someone thought of this before?
At the RSA 2008 conference this week in San Francisco, AirTight, known for its wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) products, intends to launch SpectraGuard Online. The wireless vulnerability management assessment SaaS is broader in its monitoring and reporting scope than the company’s WIPS appliances, which customers deploy and manage themselves onsite and which AirTight will continue to sell. (Compare IPS products)
The SpectraGuard Online SaaS relies on hardware sensors installed in business sites, but moves the security auditing and information reporting out into the Internet “cloud.” The idea is to make wireless auditing and security more affordable - about $2 per floor per day - for organizations with small IT budgets, such as those in retail, legal and education markets, says Sri Sundaralingam, AirTight director of product management and technical marketing.
The service checks a given environment against the wireless security aspects of seven compliance mandates, including PCI, HIPAA, SOX, GLB and others, he says.
Realty information services company LoopNet is a 300-employee company that has been testing the AirTight SaaS offering “and definitely will keep it,” says Wayne Warthen, senior VP and CTO at the company. “This SaaS is particularly attractive, because wireless security won’t ever be a core competency for our small IT team” of seven people, he says.
LoopNet went public in 2007 and struggled through its first SOX audit. “Auditors are very concerned about wireless,” Warthen explains. “But if we can tell them we have a third party that does wireless security for a living monitoring us 24/7, they will think that’s great.”
He continues: “[With a SaaS], we don’t have to spend $20,000 to bring up a wireless security system; we can spend small incremental amounts for each square foot of real estate. That's exactly the way you want to manage your business.”
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