It's no surprise that as the scope of the Internet and the services it provides the public grows that national legislators are behooved to pass laws to ensure public safety and security online.
Apples can be infected too!
One of the Apple's marketing lines for Macs has been that they do not suffer from the same virus infections that PCs have. This clearly has nothing to do with Macs being more stable than PCs, it is because fewer people own Macs than own PCs. Cyber-criminals are looking to infect as many machines as possible because this is how they create profit
7.500 HA Notice
A small issue is present in the 7.500 release which can cause some installations which are using active/passive HA to behave like an active/active cluster. Customers with active/passive HA configurations shouldn't update until 7.501 is released next week. However, if you have already updated to 7.500 and now experience some surfing issues or erratic behavior with your active/passive HA system, please contact support and they will be happy to apply a small workaround for you, or read on for the fix if you would like to apply it yourself via the command line until 7.501 is officially released
AxG V7.5 Release Completed
Completing our launch process of Version 7.5, we have released the V7.500 Up2Date to our existing installation base. Users will now be able to update to V7.5 from their existing installations. Two packages have been released, one for the 7.405 users, and another for those still at the last Beta of 7.490.
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
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
Basic Security Measures We Sometimes Forget to Use – Part 1
When talking about network security we concentrate on technologies and tactics network administrators can use to keep their organization protected. While this focus is important, even a company specializing in security can neglect to remind employees and others of some basic security measures. This post is the first in a series of posts detailing some basic security techniques for keeping your network, your identity and your computer safe
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.
PCI, Compliance, and Security
Some people seem to be confused about compliance- some hate it, a few like it, and some really like to argue about it, especially when it comes to PCI-DSS.
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