Primary Response Air Cover provides wireless threat protection from sniffing, hijacking and malware

(06/12/2006)

Sana Security, Inc. has announced Primary Response Air Cover, a standalone product for PCs that provides threat protection of online identity and sensitive data from wireless exploits such as sniffing, hijacking and malware, including viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and adware.

The downloadable solution protects the growing mobile workforce across a number of connection profiles, including home, work or on the road, against malicious access points or ad-hoc connections, maintaining a high-level of client integrity. The self-configuration capability within Primary Response Air Cover enables automatic detection of various connections and configures itself over a period of time requiring little interaction from the user.

Laptop computer sales are growing year over year in the private sector as well as the enterprise. In a recent Gartner survey of over 2,000 mobile professionals, it was reported that 25% used hot spots when traveling and over two-thirds of those surveyed used Wi-Fi at least once a day. Additionally, in a study of almost 2,500 access points in Indianapolis, presented at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at the University of Cambridge on June 26, 2006, researchers found that 46 percent were not running any form of encryption.

Primary Response Air Cover addresses the complexities involved with mobile computing by automatically detecting threats that target wireless networks, thereby preventing inadvertent and unauthorised wireless connections. This solution not only mitigates risks associated with wireless connections, but also adds an additional layer of protection of personal identity and data to augment anti-malware solutions.

Targeted at both consumers and the mobile workforce, Primary Response Air Cover includes basic tutorials that are built into the product to assist in educating users about the importance of implementing wireless security.

Sana Security offers:
- Mobile flexibility with profiles to enable protection for users whether they are at home, at work or away, providing the ability to enable or disable interfaces manually and display all connection interfaces
- Event notification which provides the ability to adjust the various profiles to configure the right connection to maximize protection
- Ease-of-use that includes profile switching to meet connection requirements, automatic threat level assessment and intelligent auto-configuration for seamless setup

"The Internet is dramatically evolving with increasing activity around individual and group collaboration, pushing users to be connected wherever and whenever they can," said Monte Robertson, President and CEO, Software Security Solutions. "Mobile computing presents almost unlimited opportunities for connecting and conducting these activities. Assurance that these connections are as secure as possible requires users to become more proactive in implementing deterrence methods beyond traditional measures. Primary Response Air Cover is designed to educate mobile business and individual users about practicing safe wireless connectivity while making sure the connections made do not threaten their personal identity or digital information."

“Over the last few years the motivation of hackers has changed dramatically from fame-driven attacks to fortune-driven and as such the attack vectors have evolved as well, becoming much more targeted,” said Timothy Eades, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Sana Security. “As laptop computers continue to increase in popularity and targeted attacks are becoming common practice, protecting PCs against wireless threats is becoming more important as users are taking their digital lifestyle and job-related data on the road with them and across unsecured networks.”

Primary Response Air Cover is available now and can be purchased for £19.95.

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