Providing hard-to-reach rural communities with a connection to the digital world is the aim of Radwin, an Israeli tech company that provides global wireless solutions. On Tuesday, Radwin announced the commercial launch of its advanced TV White Space wireless connection device.

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Radwin Outland uses reliable broadband wireless connectivity that overcomes terrain and foliage obstructions, leveraing the company's technology and over 20 years of experience.

Outland bridges service providers and unserved rural customers, providing them with value-added broadband services that can link them to online healthcare, education, work from home, and commercial and entertainment services.

Radwin's quest to address the connectivity gap is joined by Microsoft's Airband Initiative, which aims to make high-speed internet more available and affordable by leveraging various connectivity solutions.

"TV White Space solutions are a powerful means of expanding broadband access, particularly for those living in rural, hard-to-reach areas," Airband Initiative General Manager Vickie Robinson said.

"Even now, entire populations across the globe are still living in remote areas with no internet connection," Vice President of Global Business Development at Radwin Adi Nativ explained.

"Radwin's objective is to make broadband accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world, by prevailing upon all connectivity barriers," he said.

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Currently, organizations have to invest in protecting their own networks, both wired and wireless. They often lack control over threats and weaknesses. An "airborne" security attack could entail data breaches, unauthorized network access, or device hijacking.

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These threats can stem from the organization's own devices, or neighbor devices or networks. In the past two years, such attack vectors have become more popular among hackers.

AirEye CEO Shlomo Touboul said the new venture addresses "a significant weakness in organizations. In the last few months, we saw widespread attacks on US government authorities, such as the attack on the Nebraska Congress building … and attacks on the Justice Department's air network space that originated in Russia."

Touboul said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, these attacks were gaining momentum worldwide and causing "billions of dollars" in damages.

AirEye's technology, which is based on accumulated knowledge gained by WiFiWall, provides visibility and transparency to the airspace to prevent attacks. The solution does not require software installation or changes to the network configuration, and does not affect network performance.

Ohad Plotnik, who manages the company's activities in the US, said, "Due to the abundance of wireless end points, an intruder can attack a Tel Aviv hospital from the other side of the world by taking control of the wireless component in a nearby café and attack lifesaving machines inside the nearby hospital."

Plotnik was one of the founders of the $200 million cyber company, Aorato, which was sold to Microsoft in 2014. AirEye CTO Amichai Schulman, co-founded Imperva together with Mickey Boodaei, which was sold in 2018 for $2.1 billion to the Thoma Bravo Fund. Touboul himself, a veteran entrepreneur in the cyber security market who sold his first company to Intel, invented the field of Sandbox behavior analysis and founded Finjan and Yogi's Security Systems as well as serving as CEO of Team8's Illusive Networks.

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