Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Prevention and P2P Control.

What does it do?

With Astaro Security Network Protection, network administrators gain a simple & effective way to:

• Control network access. Use the latest stateful deep inspection firewall techniques to control user access in regard to specific information, access times and usage of IM and P2P applications.
  
  
• Stop intruders. Implement state of the art intrusion prevention technology for in-depth filtering, protecting against more than 6,000 attacks as well as zero day attacks.
  
  
• Secure remote access. Use SSL, IPSec, L2TP or PPTP protocols to create secure virtual private networks, connecting branch offices and granting remote access to workers.
  
  
• Optimize performance. Leverage our patent-pending content inspection framework to scan traffic with little or no latency and reserve bandwidth for time-sensitive applications such as VoIP.

Why should you use it?

Astaro Security Gateway provides complete protection for your network through a single, easy-to-manage solution, featuring a Firewall, Intrusion Prevention and VPN application.

Eliminating the administrative burden and integration issues associated with separate point products, Astaro Security Gateway delivers a fully integrated state-of-the art network protection solution.

How can you use it?

Astaro Network Protection is equipped with all Astaro Security Gateway solutions as a base license and ensures seamless integration with three additional security subscriptions: Web Filtering, Email Filtering and Email Encryption.

Astaro Security Gateway is available in three deployment variations: hardware appliance, software appliance and virtual appliance.

Technical Specifications

• Stateful deep inspection packet filter firewall
• Transparent proxies for HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS and SOCKS
• DoS, DDoS, Portscan, Worm, Botnet and Flood protection
• 6,000+ IPS rules with real-time signature updates
• VPN and Remote Access with SSL, IPSec, L2TP over IPSec and PPTP
• IM control: AIM, ICQ, MSN, Skype, Yahoo, IRC, Gtalk, Jabber
• P2P control: Bittorrent, Gnutella, eDonkey, WinMX, Winny, Manolita, Ares
• Stateful VoIP support: H.323, SIP
• Authentication via Active Directory, eDirectory, Radius, Tacacs+, LDAP or Local
• Support for integrated as well as external certificate authorities
• In and outbound traffic shaping (Guarantee, Maximum, Priority)
• Active/Active Clustering with integrated load balancing
• Automatic system software updates
• End user self-service portal
• Daily executive reports
• Web proxy cache for bandwidth savings

Content Filter, Anti Virus and Spyware.

What does it do?

With Astaro Security Gateway Web Filtering, network administrators gain a simple and effective way to:

• Inspect all web and FTP traffic. Perform fast, accurate filtering using Astaro's unique Content Inspection Framework.
  
  
• Stop viruses and spyware. Achieve unmatched detection rates for known and unknown malware through two scan engines combined in a single product.
  
  
• Filter web access. Grant web access through user and time settings. Set policies based on sixty easy-to-navigate categories, containing over twenty million sites. Daily updates of newly discovered websites maximize coverage.

Why should you use it?

Astaro Security Gateway unifies all of the web filtering components which organizations require in an easy-to-use, all-in-one solution. Fully integrated with the Email Filtering module and other security applications, it eliminates the complexity and high costs associated with multiple point product solutions.

How can you use it?

Astaro Web Filtering can be ordered as an optional subscription and activated on all Astaro Security Gateway solutions, ensuring seamless integration with the Network Protection base license along with the Email Filtering and Email Encryption subscriptions.

Astaro Security Gateway is available in three deployment variations: hardware appliance, software appliance and virtual appliance.

Technical Specifications

• High performance HTTP and FTP gateways
• Time, user and user group based filtering
• Authentication via Active Directory, eDirectory, Radius, Tacacs+, LDAP or Local
• Single sign on for Active Directory and eDirectory
• Two independent Anti-virus engines with 300,000+ patterns plus zero-day heuristics
• Scanning of HTTP, FTP and webmail traffic
• Prevents infection and hidden communication through Spyware
• URL Filtering of 20+ million websites in 60 categories
• Filtering of active content such as Java, Active X, Flash, Cookies, VBScript or JavaScript
• Web proxy cache for bandwidth savings

Anti Spam, Anti Phishing and Anti Virus.

What does it do?

With Astaro Security Gateway Email Filtering, network administrators to gain a simple and effective way to:

• Stop spam. Implement state of the art anti-spam features to minimize productivity loss and security vulnerability. Stop threats before they reach email servers.
  
  
• Prevent phishing. Block emails from criminals trying to trick users into revealing confidential information. Furthermore, prevent unsuspecting users from clicking links to fraudulent websites.
  
  
• Block viruses. Achieve unmatched detection rates for known and unknown malware. All traffic (SMTP and POP3) is inspected through two scan engines.

Why should you use it?

Astaro Security Gateway Email Filtering provides a unified solution to stop spam and to protect against the many types of email based threats which present a significant security risk to companies today.

Fully integrated with the Web Filtering and Network Protection modules, Email Filtering offers a single, easy-to-manage security solution which circumvents the hassle of installation and the maintenance of separate point products.

How can you use it?

Astaro Email Filtering can be ordered as an optional subscription and activated on all Astaro Security Gateway solutions, ensuring seamless integration with the Network Protection base license along with the Web Filtering and Email Encryption subscriptions.

Astaro Security Gateway is available in three deployment variations: hardware appliance, software appliance and virtual appliance.

Technical Specifications

• Scanning of in and outbound POP3 and SMTP traffic
• Scanning of encrypted* and compressed attachments
• Protection against server exploits with included email IPS
• Unproductive emails can be marked, quarantined or deleted
• Web portal and daily reports about blocked emails for user self-servicing actions
• Anti spam featuring techniques such as Recurrent Pattern Detection (TM), grey-listing, RBL, pattern, heuristics, SPF, BATV, URLs and B/W lists
• Anti virus with two engines featuring over 300,000 patterns and zero-day heuristics
• Multilingual and multinational character and pattern sets are supported

*Available only in conjunction with the Astaro Email Encryption subscription.

Transparent Encryption and Digital Signatures.

What does it do?

With Astaro Security Gateway Email Encryption, network administrators gain a simple and effective way to:

• Encrypt emails. Use standard OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption methods to prevent unauthorized interception of emails.
  
  
• Employ digital signatures. Verify that email content has not been altered by a third party. Ensure that the email in question was actually dispatched by the alleged sender.
  
  
• Filter encrypted emails. Enable fully integrated scanning and filtering of encrypted emails (if used in conjunction with the Astaro Security Gateway's Email Filtering subscription).

Why should you use it?

For the first time, small and medium sized companies are able to effectively use email encryption and digital signatures without employing complicated and expensive technology.

Centrally managed and entirely transparent to the end user, Astaro's Email Encryption solution enables company-wide security policies to be implemented with minimum effort.

How can you use it?

Astaro Email Encryption can be ordered as an optional subscription and activated on all Astaro Security Gateway solutions, ensuring seamless integration with the Network Protection base license along with the Email Filtering and Web Filtering subscriptions.

Astaro Security Gateway is available in three deployment variations: hardware appliance, software appliance and virtual appliance.

Technical Specifications

• Transparent en/decryption and digital signing of SMTP emails
• Scan encrypted emails*
• Scan encrypted and compressed attachments*
• Support for OpenPGP, S/MIME and TLS encryption standards
• Allows usage of internal or external certificate authorities (CA)
• Fully supports X.509 standard for digital certificates
• Allows import of S/MIME certificates and OpenPGP keys

* in combination with Astaro's Email Filtering subscription