AirMagnet Products: WLAN security and performance monitoring

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Wireless Network Monitoring, Security, Compliance, and Troubleshooting Tools

Real-Time Expert System Automated Alarms and Event Diagnosis

Wi-Fi wireless LAN network management, troubleshooting, and security monitoring requires that network managers and support engineers have the most comprehensive view of security events, packet-level data flow, and performance statistics. A combination of perimeter defenses, system-wide monitoring and intrusion detection, and ad hoc analysis and troubleshooting tools facilitates the Wi-Fi network planning, troubleshooting, and security analysis process. Connect802 uses AirMagnet tools and systems as part of one of our Connect EZ Solution Suites to meet the needs for wireless network performance and vulnerability analysis, intrusion detection, and rogue blocking.

AirMagnet Handheld 802.11 Wireless Network Analyzer

With the ability to automatically detect 100 wireless security, performance, and configuration problems, AirMagnet Handheld is a must-have tool for network installers, IT network administrators and security officers who need to deploy, secure, administer their 802.11b wireless LAN's. The AirMagnet Handheld also includes a collection of tools designed uniquely for the field technician. Tools include a Find Tool for tracking down any wireless device, VoWLAN Tools, as well as tools to help confirm compliance with with your network SLAs. Insure every device in the network conforms to your security policy with support for WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x, VPNs, LEAP, PEAP, TKIP, MIC, FAST, WEP or others.

AirMagnet Portable 802.11 Wireless Network Analyzer

The AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer is the industry's most advanced stand-alone solution for wireless security and troubleshooting. Built from the ground up to meet the challenges of 802.11a/b/g WLANs, the AirMagnet Laptop provides a direct automated analysis of any WLAN, proactively detects over 100 network problems, and delivers a set of active wireless troubleshooting tools that simply aren't available anywhere else. The result, is an invaluable network management tool that gives IT professionals a transparent view into Wi-Fi and provides everything they need to quickly pin down any network problem. Keep your network protected while you troubleshoot with built-in authentication support for WPA, WEP, LEAP, FAST, PEAP, TLS, FAST and more.

AirMagnet Distributed Enterprise Monitoring and Analysis Server

AirMagnet Enterprise centrally manages remote Intelligent Sensors that are installed throughout the coverage site. The system detects more than 120 wireless problems and automatically defends the network in real-time as threats arise. Intrusion prevention measures include wireless blocking to stop threats at their source and wired blocking to protect the wired network from intrusions. Blocking measures can be triggered either manually or automatically, and AirMagnet can alert specific staff members or resources with over a dozen configurable notification and escalation methods. Over 1,500 SmartEdge Sensors are supported in a single system.

The AirMagnet SmartEdge Intelligent Sensor

AirMagnet SmartEdge Sensors are equipped with dual radios that allow them to monitor 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g concurrently and dynamically. Unlike simple packet analyzer sniffing probes, each AirMagnet Sensor has an Intelligent AirWISE Analysis Engine built in, allowing it to autonomously monitor the environment. This unique ability allows the "heavy lifting" of the analysis to be performed locally at the edge of the network and avoids the additional bandwidth overhead of capturing and resending each and every packet to a central server for processing. The AirMagnet Enterprise Server correlates and consolidates information from all of the remote Sensors.


Distributed Wireless Network Monitoring for the Enterprise ..or, "How does it work?"
	Remote Sensors On the left side of the diagram you see Sensors in multiple remote locations (Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco). These could be multiple floors in a single building or multiple buildings in a corporate campus. Central AirMagnet Enterprise Server In the center you see the AirMagnet Enterprise Server software running in a location that is IP-accessible by the Sensors. The Enterprise Server interrogates, consolidates, and reports on expert system alerts, statistics, and packet-level streams acquired by the Sensors. The Server aggregates information from multiple Sensors. Management and Security Monitoring Console On the right you see the network manager using the AirMagnet Console software on their operations center console computer or their notebook computer in the field. Expert system alarms, alerts, and packet-level protocol analysis decoding allows comprehensive, intelligent, and effective performance analysis, troubleshooting, and network defense.

You may want to read the in-depth AirMagnet industry perspective to learn more about the Wi-Fi networking industry and the AirMagnet response to the needs for Wi-Fi wireless network monitoring and Wi-Fi security and intrusion detections. AirMagnet is, first and foremost, a wireless network monitoring and security tool. It also provides wireless packet-level decoding to allow you to "drill down" to a problem. Of course, data in the air in a wireless network should be encrypted. Consequently, the more you drill down, the more likely it will be that you'll encounter encrypted data. That's why AirMagnet applies its expert system technology to making sense out of the traffic and reporting statistics and expert system intrusion detection, rogue access point, rogue device, and other WLAN security issues. Tools that are predominantly wireless packet-level protocol analyzers (like SnifferPRO Wireless, WildPackets AiroPeek NX, Network Instruments Observer, NetStumbler, and LinkFerret) are used, ultimately, for a different purpose. These packet-level protocol analyzers provide many ways to look at the contents of data packets, and, while AirMagnet allows you to examine the contents of data packets as well, AirMagnet focuses on the immediate, automatic notification of security violations, performance threshold issues, and other problem isolation, problem reporting, and problem source identification issues. If you're running a large, sophisticated network you'll need both intrusion detection (AirMagnet) and a packet-level protocol analyzer to troubleshoot your wired Ethernet.

The AirMagnet handheld analyzer, AirMagnet portable analyzer, and AirMagnet distributed enterprise wireless LAN network monitoring and intrusion detection systems with the AirMagnet Sensors are sold by Connect802 as a security and network monitoring component of a Connect EZ Solution Suite. If you need commercial network monitoring and management tools, either software analysis tools, handheld protocol network protocol analysis tools, or a full enterprise wireless network security monitoring, intrusion detection, and rogue access point blocking system, We've Got You Covered. When it comes to network monitoring, network performance, network management, and the network monitoring tools and network tools you need for a secure, trouble free network, talk to Connect802 and we'll help you select the right equipment. In some cases it is absolutely critical that you improve the security of your Wi-Fi wireless network. Wi-Fi wireless network security monitoring and intrusion detection is only part of what the AirMagnet tools can do. Secure 802.11b Wi-Fi wireless LAN networks were originally discovered to have WEP flaws. By the time secure 802.11a and 802.11b/g networks had come on the scene, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) provided one layer of wireless security and 802.1x RADIUS authentication added another layer of WiFi security. This didn't stop a person from bringing in a mass-market access point and creating a security exposure by simply plugging it in. That's were wireless network monitoring, intrusion detection systems, rogue blocking, and distributed wireless network analysis systems come into play. You need to have the right network instruments for wireless network protocol analysis. In addition to the network instruments and other RF-related tools, you need wireless network protocol analysis training. Armed with the products for LAN and wireless network analysis and protocol decoding, and on the basis of your network troubleshooting and protocol analysis training, you're ready to tackle the job of managing your WLAN. Connect802 can partner with you and provide professional consulting services and our TRAC™ trace file analysis service for network troubleshooting and protocol analysis so you can derive the maximum benefit from your packet sniffers, distributed analysis tools, and WLAN protocol analyzers. We can also provide you with wired and wirelss network test tools and protocol analyzers if you need them.

The large number of mobile devices, wireless notebook computers, wireless networks, PDAs, and visitors to a business Wi-Fi network creates opportunities for security compromise. Intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems create a way to discover and defend against vulnerabilities and threats and take Wi-Fi security countermeasures to protect and defend the wireless network.