Category: Firewalls

Astaro Awarded 5 Stars by SC Magazine for Web Content Filtering

Astaro was recognized with a 5 star review by SC Magazine for our web content filtering technology. The full review can be read here: Web Content Management . What is most impressive about the review isn’t the spectacular comments regarding the technology it is what they have listed as the negative: nothing.

Better Archive Your E-Mails – Because E-Mail Outages Do Happen!

Well, luckily I’m not one of the 0,02% of Google Mail users that where affected by Monday's massive outage, resulting in empty mail accounts. After a software storage update, Google’s Gmail service lost e-mails of roughly 38,000 users

Security Pattern Updates

This is a complete list of modified, newly added or deleted rules for the latest Astaro IPS Pattern Up2date. Our IPS Pattern Up2dates are automatically executed on your appliance if you have applied this rule via your WebAdmin. We suggest that you set the pattern download and installation intervals to 15 minutes, which is the default. This option can be found under the following path: Webadmin > > Management > > Up2Date > > Pattern download/installation interval. If this has already been set, there is no need to make any further adjustments.

Serious Security Issues with DNS Software BIND – Astaro Products Not Affected

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) and US-CERT have issued a vulnerability warning which concerns BIND, the most widely used DNS software. The affected versions are 9.7.1-9.7.2-P3. This could cause the DNS server to stop processing further requests