Astaro Web Security

In many companies, Web 2.0 typically means security level 0.2. Employees routinely access their regular web applications from their work stations and exchange data packets over Instant Messaging programs, therefore creating new scenarios of abuse. Popular web applications do not only reduce the productivity of daily work processes, but can also potentially lead to serious legal consequences.

Such undesirable hazards can be averted through the professional management of employee web access. Corruptive content, typically hidden within web and FTP downloads, need to be strategically filtered out in order to protect corporate networks from dangerous malware and spyware infections. The use of single point solutions, such as URL filtering or antivirus products, tend to only marginally secure your perimeter. Today’s corporate networks are required to maximise their security through the implementation of complete solutions, which cover all security bases.

Astaro Web Gateway serves to effectively protect from web based attacks, provides maximum functionality through minimal effort and accommodates a spectacular price-performance ratio. With this “All in One” appliance, IT administrators are easily able to:

• Filter web access:
  Grant web access based on sixty easy-to-navigate categories with user and time based policies.

• Detect malicious code:
  Perform fast, accurate scanning for viruses, spyware and active content, providing unmatched detection rates via two scan engines.

• Control IM/P2P applications:
  Steer and manage access and use of all IM and P2P applications including Skype.

• Manage bandwidth:
  Orchestrate and prioritize bandwidth for important business applications.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Security:

• Reliably blocks malicious content within web and FTP traffic
• Dual Virus Protection with extensive virus signature databases
• Control for all important IM/P2P applications

Easy to manage:

• Browser-based graphical user interface
• Real-time automatic update of firmware and attack patterns
• Extensive Web security reports
• Active Directory and eDirectory integration

Web Security Reporting

Astaro Web Gateways are equipped with one of the most extensive logging and reporting systems available on any security product today. Every website visit, download and IM/P2P usage is fully stored in a self-archiving system, allowing Astaro to then extrapolate data into useful reports directly on the gateway:

• In-line reports: offer up-to-date statistical information through more then thirty detailed reports, updated every fifteen minutes. These help identify top web, application and bandwidth usages per user or domain. These reports offer fully detailed breakdown of surfing activities by IP address or user name as well as complete listings of blocked domains, URL categories, viruses and file extensions.

• Reporting graphs: provide daily, weekly, monthly and yearly overview statistics about the utilization of hardware components such as CPU, RAM, hard disk, and network interface usage.

• Executive report: includes summary information taken from both the In-line reports and the reporting graphs. They can be generated on demand and also emailed out to a list of users on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

Astaro Web Gateway Highlights

• Dual antivirus engines operate with two independent databases with over 300,000 patterns
• Blocks incoming and outgoing spyware traffic, preventing infection and hidden communication
• Blocks file formats defined within black-lists
• Blocks the hidden installation of active content like Java, Active X, Flash, Cookies, VBScript, JavaScript within the user’s desktop
• Content scanning capability for files over 40 MB
• Automatic real-time update of firmware and virus patterns and signatures, through realtime check with Astaro’s Up2Date server
• Time, user and user-group based access policies
• Transparent web proxy cache enables faster response times, even with low speed Internet uplinks
• URL filtering technology controls employee web access, with over 20 million websites across 60 categories.
• Uses comprehensive URL database with international content in more than 70 languages, via sites registered in over 200 countries
• Daily update of newly- discovered websites maximise coverage
• Integrated user database, Active Directory, eDirectory, Radius, Tacacs+ and LDAP authentication
• Active Directory and eDirectory integrated with single sign-on
• Instant Messaging and Peer- to-Peer control: AOL IM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Google Talk/ Jabber, Skype, Bittorrent, Edonkey, Gnutella, WinMX, Winny, Manolito, Ares and Direct Connect
• Granular IM/P2P Control with exceptions based on User/IP addresses, QoS for IM/P2P protocols
• Skype blocking, alerting and bandwidth shaping
• Support for UTF-8
• Server load balancing
• Customizable end user messages
• Active/Passive (Hot Stand-by) and Active/Active (Clustering) HA, without the need of load balancers
• Integrated graphical reports offering comprehensive information about frequency and duration of web-usage by user and domain, blocked web categories, detected/ blocked viruses
• Daily executive reports, optionally distributed by email
• Simple management in web browser
• Setup wizard and online help

• choosing the right Astaro Web Gateway appliance (505 KB)
• sizing guide for Astaro Web Gateway (196 KB)

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