Bluesocket Showcases WLAN Security and Management in Government, Enterprises & Education at COMNET 2003

WASHINGTON, D.C (COMNET)--January 27, 2003
Between January 28-30, 2003, at the COMNET 2003 Exposition in Washington, DC, Bluesocket, Inc., an award-winning developer of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) solutions, will be showcasing how its products are being used by enterprises, education and government to securely connect and manage mobile devices to networks and the Internet.

Come to our booth: #647

We'd like to invite journalists and analysts to visit our booth (#647) at COMNET, said Patrick Rafter, director of corporate communications, Bluesocket. Knowing that wireless is an important theme of the conference we'd like to encourage conference participants to free to stop by to talk with us about the latest developments in:

• Wireless LANs
• Wireless Security
• Wireless Hotspots and Public Access
• War Driving
• The alphabet soup of 802.11 standards and the imperative for interoperability and communications convergence
• Homeland Security and Wireless

Securing Wireless Government

COMNET-Washington, D.C. is an appropriate venue for Bluesocket to showcase is solutions for wireless security--an area of critical importance to the Federal government. In a recent report, the Office of Management and Budget noted that, in 2001, the U.S. government spent almost 6 percent of its IT budget on security ( $3 billion out of $48 billion). In November 2002, White House cyber security chief Richard Clarke singled out wireless LANs as the "biggest security soft spot in the industry."

Bluesocket's Wireless Gateways, recognized as the 'Best Security Product of 2002' by the Networking Industry Awards 2002 are single component network systems that secure and manage wireless networks and provide user authentication, bandwidth and administrative management in hundreds of organizations around the world including:

Government Agencies:
U.S. General Accounting Office, Department of Defense, National Security Agency; Singapore Prime Minster's Office; as well as law enforcement and public safety.

Corporations:
Abbott Laboratories, BTG, ATOS KPMG Consulting, Microsoft, Orange; multinationals and small businesses.

Educational Institutions:
Harvard University, London School of Economics, University of Georgia and more than 80 higher educational institutions.

Other:
Beth Israel Hospital; as well as law firms, warehouses, libraries, airports, Japanese laboratories, an unwired medieval city in Spain; even a meat packing plant in South Dakota.

Within the past year, Bluesocket has:

1) Developed and shipped three networking products (award-winning Wireless Gateways to secure and manage wireless networks) which are now deployed in hundreds of enterprises.)

2) Been recommended by the National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST) to secure WLANs in the Federal Government. Announced its commitment to deliver products with FIPS140-2 Level 1 and higher compliance.

3) Established a worldwide network of 100 channel partners in 25 countries; including resellers such as Datavision-Prologix, Dimension Data, and Northrop Grumman Information Technology.

4) Expanded technology and sales partnerships with industry leaders such as Cisco, D-Link, HP, Intel, SSH, and VASCO.

5) Secured $18M Series B round in venture capital funding in a down economy and was named a 'Top Ten' startup by Venture Wire.

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About Bluesocket

Bluesocket, Inc. (www.bluesocket.com) manufactures solutions to manage and secure wireless local area networks (WLANs) in enterprises and public hotspots worldwide. Bluesocket provides organizations including the National Security Agency, ATOS KPMG Consulting, Harvard Medical School and Best Western Hotels with elegant systems to secure, manage and profit from their WLANs. With offices in the U.S., U.K., and Asia, Bluesocket, Inc. is a private , global corporation managed by executives from BT, Cisco, GTE, Ericsson, Intel, Nortel; other industry leaders.

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