Astaro Corporation Wins Top Honors at LinuxWorld Expo
Receives ‘Product Excellence’ Award for 'Best Security Solution'.LINUXWORLD EXPO & BURLINGTON, MASS., August 10, 2005 - Astaro Corporation's Astaro Security Gateway appliance received the Product Excellence Award for Best Security Solution at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®, currently underway in San Francisco. Astaro's unified threat management products protect computer networks from viruses, hackers, spam and other threats.
"We are honored that the judges at LinuxWorld, who represent our peers in the open source community, have acknowledged what our customers already know - that Astaro is producing the best network security solution on the market," said Jan Hichert, CEO of Astaro. "It's a tribute to the drive and dedication of Astaro's employees and partners worldwide."
About Astaro Products
Astaro Security Linux software and Astaro Security Gateway hardware appliances offer seven-in-one protection, including:
- Firewall - guards Internet communications traffic in and out of the organization.
- Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateway - assures secure communications with remote offices, "road warriors," and telecommuters.
- Virus Protection - defends computers from both email and web-borne viruses.
- Intrusion Protection - detects and stops hostile probes and application-based attacks.
- Spam Protection - eliminates the productivity drain of opening and deleting unsolicited emails.
- Surf Protection (Content Filtering) - improves productivity by blocking inappropriate activities on the web.
- Spyware Protection - detects and blocks spyware infection attempts as well as spyware communication from already infected systems
Enhancing usability and lowering cost-of-ownership is an intuitive graphical interface that enables a single administrator to manage all seven Astaro security applications over the web via an encrypted link. Changes to users, groups, security policies, configurations and system parameters can be made quickly and easily with intuitive point-and-click screens. There is only one interface to learn, and one system to maintain.
About LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is the premier event exclusively focused on Linux and Open Source solutions.
About Astaro - www.astaro.com
Astaro develops a complete line of network security products including the Astaro Security Gateway line of security appliances and Astaro Security Linux, a software-based solution.
The company is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. and in Karlsruhe, Germany. Astaro's software has won numerous industry awards, and is protecting over 20,000 networks in 60 countries, including such organizations as Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Los Alamos National Labs, Stanford University and Watsco, Inc. Astaro products are distributed by a worldwide network of 500 solutions partners who offer local support and services.
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