Astaro Announces New Automated PCI Compliance Reporting for Astaro Unified Threat Management Systems

Astaro enhances its product portfolio with automated compliance for PCI regulation

Burlington, Mass. (September 19th, 2007) – Astaro Corporation (www.astaro.com), a leader in delivering Unified Threat Management (UTM) security appliances, today announcedthe availability of the Astaro Compliance Reporter (ACR) into its award-winning line of security products. Organizations operating under the regulation of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) can conduct their risk assessment using a “Turbo-Tax™” style questionnaire that compliments Astaro’s UTM solution to provide a current and accurate compliance report as required by regulatory agencies.

This approach reduces the need for organizations to train employees or hire costly outside consultants for the specific purpose of risk assessment compliance. To facilitate automation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has in place risk management guidelines that can be applied to regulated companies, however the sheer amount of information in the NIST protocols can total thousands of pages of material. By providing its end users with a true automated risk assessment program that is updated monthly to meet the ever-changing requirements of various regulations, Astaro further strengthens its security toolkit while preserving the unmatched ease-of-use that their seventh-generation WebAdmin GUI provides. Compliance has never been so easy.

"Compliance isn't just doing the right thing, it is reporting you are doing the right thing." said Charles Kolodgy, research director at IDC. "Having an automated tool for updating risk assessments as part of a UTM solution, should be a considerable time and cost saver.”

Astaro Compliance Reporter costs $595 USD per site location, for one year access and will be available through Astaro’s reseller channel effective September 19th.
Astaro Compliance Reporter was also recently named as one of CRN’s “14 Hot Products from XChange '07” last week, at the CMP XChange '07 conference in Orlando, FL.

About Astaro
Astaro Corporation is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. and Karlsruhe, Germany. The Astaro Security Gateway, simplifying Email, Web & Network Security, has won numerous industry awards and is protecting over 30,000 networks in 60 countries. Astaro products are distributed by a worldwide network of more than 1,000 solution partners who offer local support and services. For more information, please visit www.astaro.com.

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