A recent article in CNN Money titled “Cybercrime: A secret underground economy” discussed the existence of organized crime in cyber-crime and how organized crime has turned cyber-crime into a multi-million dollar a year industry. The article provided some great insight into the black market of cyber-crime. The fact is, most of the organized crime has turned to cybercrime as the next generation of how they make money
Basic Security Tips part 2 – Effective passwords
A while back I published a post about locking your computer to make it safe. In this post we will discuss how to create passwords that are hard to crack but easy to remember to keep your personal computer, accounts and company network more secure. In an attempt to remember our work email password, our personal email password, our bank password, our network access password, etc
AxG 7.5 ISO Images Available
Continuing with our V7.5 release schedule, we have released the ISO images of V7.5 for all Astaro Gateway products. Next week on October 5th, we will distribute V7.5 as an Up2Date to all installations via our Content Distribution Network
Knowing is half the battle
Network security is a daily and complicated struggle for most network administrators who strive to keep on top of the latest virus outbreaks, network intrusion attempts, software patches, and web and email scams. Comprehensive Network security today requires a layered approach so that internal network resources can be properly protected against all the different types of malicious content out there. Properly designing and maintaining a network to guard against these attacks can be a challenge to even the most seasoned admin
Astaro Gateway 7.500 Released
We are proud to announce that the General Availability (GA) of 7.500 has been soft-released. 7.500 includes great new features and functions, many of which were requested by our customers. To name just a few, there is a new Intrusion Protection Engine, Real-Time Bandwidth Monitoring, a transparent HTTP proxy mode with captive authentication portal, and the ability to import and export various lists.
Astaro Strengthens Management Team With Former Cisco Executive
Today Astaro announced the appointment of a new Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Günter Junk, who will be based in Germany, will be responsible for Astaro's worldwide sales and marketing strategy as a globally operating vendor for UTM solutions. Today Astaro announced the appointment of a new Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing
Aligning Compliance and Security
Compliance and security aren't the same, but they are often related, and even when they are at odds we need to accomplish both.
ASG Beta 7.490 Released
We have released 7.490 for our Beta testers. This can be considered the 7.500 Release Candidate which will be finalized as the GA in the future. As we move closer to our GA Version, we've taken the time to apply more fixes to the release and prepare it for general use.
Astaro to offer Free Business Firewall for VMware
Today, Astaro announced that it will soon offer a Free Business Firewall for VMware to all organizations with virtual environments. The Free VMware Firewall will protect networks from external threats as well as control and monitor communications between virtual machines. The Free Business Firewall for VMware offers the base functionality of the Astaro Security Gateway virtual appliance using a special license key
Astaro’s Regina Grieco Recognized as One of the Top 100 Women in the Channel
Astaro's Regina Grieco was named one of Everything Channel's CRN Magazine Top 100 Women in the Channel. Astaro's Regina Grieco was named one of Everything Channel's CRN Magazine Top 100 Women in the Channel. This award honors women in the channel who were able to achieve great results as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel.