Since the Internet has become a staple of businesses and homes we've become familiar with the term “virus” and what it means from a technology perspective. In recent years viruses have evolved into more powerful 'botnets'. While we've discussed the effects of botnets several times in this blog we've never defined the term.
Free Astaro Security Gateway Essential Firewall edition available
This morning, Astaro announced the availability of the free Astaro Security Gateway Essential Firewall edition. The Essential Firewall edition includes basic, yet critical functionality that all organizations need to secure their networks and operate a successful business.
Astaro Mail Archiving Service Open BETA Launched
I am pleased to annoucne that the BETA for the first release of our new Astaro Mail Archiving Service is now available. Participation in the open BETA program is free for all interested end customers and partners. As a thank you for your active participation we will provide active participants with a free 6 months subscription to the archiving service! Discover the advantages of our hosted e-mail archiving solution: Â Offload your Mail Server Regain valuable resources back from your messaging server by reducing the storage occupied by e-mails with a reliable and secure way to transfer them to the hosted archiving service
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
Astaro releases version 7.5 of the Astaro Security Gateway
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
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
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.
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