Trapeze Networks announces the Trapeze RF Firewall

Trapeze location based firewalling

Trapeze Networks announced global availability of the Trapeze RF Firewall, a location-based firewall securing wireless LAN networks (WLANs). The Trapeze RF Firewall is the first application available on the new Trapeze LA-200E Location Appliance. The Trapeze RF Firewall is a perimeter security application that works in conjunction with the Trapeze LA-200E.

For example, a company may decide to deny network access to anyone located outside the building. The Trapeze LA-200E Location Appliance is able to discern exactly where someone with their Wi-Fi device is located. Based on that information, the RF Firewall refers to the enforced policy , denying access to the network inside. This type of firewall thwarts a wide variety of hacking / cracking techniques.

Example in US

In what is possibly one of the largest cybercrimes committed to-date, thieves parked outside a TJ Maxx department store used their wireless laptops to read transactions processed by Wi-Fi-connected cash registers inside the store. Ultimately, 45.000.000 credit cards numbers were stolen. A Trapeze RF Firewall running on a Trapeze LA-200E could have located the notebook in the parking lot and stopped it from connecting to the network.

Read the full Press Release here in English.
Read the full Press Release here in Dutch.