The ONLY Strong Positive WIPS Vendor

Since the dawn of the wireless era in the early 2000s, there are many wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) vendors which have entered the market. With the ONLY exception of AirTight Networks, all of these WIPS vendors have either closed down or being bought over by large access point (AP) producing companies like Motorola (which bought over Air Defense), Cisco (which bought over Meraki) and Fluke (which bought over Air Magnet).

To this day, AirTight Networks remains the ONLY WIPS vendor independent of any large AP producing companies.

Gartner, Inc., the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, has done six marketscope reviews of WIPS products from 2006 to 2012. In order to meet Gartner’s stringent inclusion criteria, WIPS vendors will need to have strong evidence of WIPS market presence, and most importantly end-users can purchase the WIPS solutions as a standalone product.

There are also WIPS vendors known historically in the context of WIPS, but not ranked by Gartner (excerpts from the latest Gartner Marketscope Review 2012) :-

AirPatrol exited the WLAN IPS market in 2010 to work on specialized federal markets, and in 2011 began to developed context-aware mobility security products. The AirPatrol ZoneDefense product provides wireless monitoring for WLAN and cellular signals, but does not meet the functional requirements to be included in the WLAN IPS MarketScope.

D-Link has developed some in-house capability, but had not generated competitive visibility during the study period.

HP has a strategic partnership with AirTight Networks, but does not separately meet the competitive visibility requirements for inclusion.

Meru Networks launched a security and compliance suite that provides basic WLAN IPS and an optional PCI module, but did not meet the visibility and evidence inclusion criteria set forth for this research.

Netgear does not have a differentiated WLAN IPS capability that would meet the competitive visibility requirements for inclusion.

Juniper Networks acquired Trapeze Networks in 2010. Neither Trapeze nor Juniper has promoted a competitive WLAN IPS position.

Code Red Systems does not support the centralized WLAN IPS functions required for inclusion.

WatchGuard Technologies offers basic WLAN IPS, but did not meet the visibility and evidence inclusion requirements set forth in the inclusion criteria for this research.