Astaro Security Gateway combines best-of-breed technology under one easy to use interface.

Regardless of whether a company requires basic network security technology or sophisticated intrusion protection, the modular concept of Astaro Security Gateway effectively provides a well tailored security solution. A complete range of hardware appliances scale to the performance needs of most enterprises.

Astaro’s award winning security solution is the most widely used UTM (Unified Threat Management) security solution in the world.

Have you ever thought about how your computer talks with others on a network?

Networks need to be protected against a wide variety of Internet threats, including denial of service attacks, port scans, worms, trojans, botnets and application exploits. Organisations often implement point products like IPS systems, VPN routers and firewalls as a solution. This requires the maintenance of multiple products, but users also need to be continuously assured that these products are fully integrated in order to effectively protect their network.

Network engineers, system administrators, security professionals and unfortunately, hackers, have long used tools that allow them to do exactly that using utilities such as a sniffer, which can grab all of the traffic flowing into and out of a computer attached to a network.

Why should Users be concerned?

Anything transmitted in plaintext over the network will be vulnerable – passwords, web pages, database queries and messaging to name a few. Intrusion tools can easily be customised to capture specific traffic like telnet sessions or email. Once traffic has been captured, hackers can quickly extract the information they need – logins, passwords and the text of messages. And the users will most likely never know they were compromised.

How can Users protect themselves?

To secure their network, administrators need to start from the top and filter down to the user. Methods of protection include anti-sniffing tools, switched networks, antivirus, spam filteringdata encryption to name a few. This can require maintenance of multiple products, or it can be managed centrally from Astaro’s Security Gateway management GUI.

Astaro Security Gateway provides immediate protection for your network, web access and email traffic. The solution integrates more security applications than any competitor in one management device. An intuitive setup wizard enables you to get the system up and running within minutes. The browser based GUI features easy point-and-click system administration without requiring in-depth technical knowledge. Automatic Internet updates of firmware and attack patterns always keep the system up to date.