Perhaps this scenario sounds familiar: you need to connect several remote branch offices to your corporate headquarters, maybe also including a few mobile employees and home offices. There is no IT know-how on site at most of these locations! How can you handle this situation?
National Cyber Security Awareness Month Contest Winners
As part of National CyberSecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), Astaro held a video contest asking “Why is cyber security awareness important and what are you doing to stay safe online?” for a chance to win a laptop. The videos that came in were very creative and we enjoyed them very much
Fortinet Corporate Video
Fortinet’s new corporate video.
More Air Traffic Control For Your Network with the Sophos AP50
With the Astaro Security Gateway centrally acting as a wireless controller, our access points are the easiest and most cost-effective way to secure your wireless networks. The Wireless Access Point product family is about to get bigger with the introduction of the AP50 device. The AP50 is a dual-band/dual-radio wireless access point that operates in both the 2.4 and 5 GHz WLAN frequency bands and features: 802.11 a/b/g/n support 300 Mbits throughput PoE+ compatibility Gigabit Ethernet interface Support for up to 50 users The AP50 provides fast and reliable WLAN for more flexibility and is less vulnerable to interference, even in congested environments.
Astaro Security Gateway Public Beta 8.300
The public Beta of Astaro Security Gateway 8.300 has begun! During the next few weeks, you can test our upcoming release and try out new features early. 8.300 introduces BGP Routing, Amazon Machine Images (to run ASG in the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud), an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connector, support for a new Wireless AP50 product, and the ability to create site-to-site VPN's between ASG installations using our RED tunnel technology. This and more is ready for you to see! Read on for the rest of the details and how you can participate in the beta of ASG 8.300 General Beta Information Why Participate
Fortinet and BreakingPoint: Harden Defenses Against Cyber Attack Through Content-Aware Testing
Join Fortinet and BreakingPoint to learn how military and intelligence organizations are conducting competitive device bake-offs using a six-step methodology and implementing a deterministic measurement of performance, security, and stability of networks to conduct pre-deployment testing and select the best devices for their unique networks. You’ll learn about the underlying technology and best practices that delivered advanced insight into the performance, security and stability of devices and earned Fortinet a BreakingPoint Resiliency Score of 95/100 — the highest score published on record.
Astaro enters Cloud Security Alliance
Astaro recently joined the Cloud Security Alliance(CSA) along with Sophos and is now looking into further cooperation and speaking opportunities with the group. The CSA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.
FortiGate (FortiExplorer): So easy a kid can set i up
The FortiExplorer is a utility, which provides an easy way for setup and configuration of a Fortinet FortiGate.
A new internet threat every 4.5 seconds
Twice a year Sophos publishes its Security Threat Report.
Astaro Command Center V3.0 Released
I am proud to announce the availability of Astaro Command Center 3.0. ACC is our central management application that you use to see and work with all Astaro products through a single GUI.