detecting and correctly classifying wireless threats - to catch all threats, while minimizing false alarms

preventing (multiple, simultaneous) wireless threats - while continuing to scan for new ones

accurately locating wireless threats on a floor map - so they can be removed

providing a comprehensive reporting capability for compliance and audit purposes

SpectraGuard Enterprise 5.2 offers new and improved functionality in 3 of these 4 categories, in addition to adopting a FIPS compliant encryption algorithm.

In the detection and classification area, Release 5.2 enhances SpectraGuard by:

offering the industry's best, most granular sensor configuration capabilities - allowing the enterprise to define and group sensors into multiple categories - either geographically and/or functionally. For each of these categories the user specifies which (or all) of 62 different 802.11 channels to monitor - to detect devices and threats across this wireless spectrum. This will allow an enterprise to set different wireless security policies for its data centers in the UK and its retail stores in the US or Asia (as an example).

Improving our detection of pre-standard 802.11n APs. Release 5.2 has adapted its algorithms to detect so-called "super-APs" and "turbo-APs" built on Atheros chipsets, as well as "draft-802.11n APs" from multiple vendors, in addition to the "pre-standard 802.11n APs" that we already detect.