Astaro officially released version 7.5 of the Astaro Security Gateway today. The new version of the Unified Threat Management product includes several enhancements such as an improved Intrusion Protection Engine, multicast support, and real-time bandwidth monitoring capabilities. Many of the new features included in this new version were included in the release due to user feedback on Astaro's new Feature request site.
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
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.
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
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
The Public Cloud
I listen to NPR basically every time I'm in the car. Normally this gives me an ok sense as to what the rest of the world is thinking about. One show I am able to listen to regularly is “On Point”.
Up2Date 7.405 Released
Greetings, In order to apply some essential security patches, we are releasing Up2Date 7.405 now. This Up2Date is purely a security update, with no other changes
Free silent business audit and forensic analysis
Last week we announced an exciting new offer for all businesses in the US – a free silent business audit with forensic analysis.