News Coverage

Considered by many as the new kid on the block, Astaro officially opened the Asia Hub office in Singapore in October of 2009. Shanti Morais from Asian Channels, the leading IT guide for technology channels partners, talks to Norbert Kiss, Vice President for Asia, regarding his channel strategy in building and growing long-term channel relationships in Asia where the IT security industry is expected to grow 20% this year.

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Jan Hichert, CEO of Astaro, sits down with Shanti Morais of Asian Channels, the leading IT guide for technology channels partners, to introduce Astaro’s commitment to penetrating the lucrative Asian market. The leading European UTM security solution provider, Astaro aims to strike the same successful fate in Asia by introducing a new licensing model that strategically places their UTM competitively against the top SME and enterprise players. On top of this, Mr. Hichert introduces the Essential Firewall edition of Astaro’s security portfolio that provides the base technology at no cost to customers. Mr. Hichert, also, touched on Astaro’s product innovations for 2010: Remote Ethernet Device (RED), Wireless Security and Astaro Mail Archiving (AMA) Service.

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Yogesh Gupta of ChannelWorld India gets an exclusive first-hand look with Gunter Junk, Vice President Worldwide Sales and Marketing, on Astaro’s 2010 Product Innovations: RED, Wireless Security and Astaro Mail Archving (AMA) Service. Mr. Junk shares the partner commitment and strategy of Astaro in India, where Astaro has already been making a lot of noise since its establishment in Delhi in late 2009. The German executive touches on the company’s positive outlook for the India market and what role our channels will play a big part of in establishing a foothold in this promising region.

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Astaro is a great product! Up till now, It has only been free for home usage. Now you can get a good business firewall for free! All though you get more cool stuff in the ASG Free Home Use Firewall, this is a very good Firewall with all the essentials.

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Dave Rogers, vice president Americas, Astaro and Robert DuBois of Divine Millemet discuss the benefits of implementing a Unified Threat Management product to protect networks (from page 32).

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Rob Fuller tests and discusses the Astaro Security Gateway Essential Firewall Edition.

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Security firm Astaro is offering free firewalls to small and midsized businesses starting today. Too good to be true? Maybe not. Astaro Corporation's announcement of free distribution of its Firewall Essentials is interesting to small and midsized businesses on a couple of fronts.

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Astaro is the latest security vendor to offer a product at no cost to new customers as a means of exposing its solutions to more end users and capture greater market share. It’s giving away its Essential Firewall, which has much of the same functionality and performance as its other firewalls and UTM appliances, but lacks high-touch support. Users opting for the free version will receive support through a user forum only.

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Unified threat management firm Astaro is offering a free version of its UTM product, focusing on firewall functions and targeting SMBs.

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SC Magazine’s Dan Raywood spoke to Astaro co-founder Gert Hansen about the Essential Firewall Edition of Astaro Security Gateway which is available for all companies at no charge.

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Computing.co.uk writes about the launch of the free Essential Firewall Edition of Astaro Security Gateway, including a short statement by Astaro co-founder Gert Hansen.

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Infosecurity.com introduces the Essential Firewall Edition of the Astaro Security Gateway and notes that despite the IT security software being free it supports many of the features that rivals offer on their pay-for applications, e.g. stateful packet inspection.

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Astaro's Angelo Comazzetto is quoted discussing the environmental benefits of UTM appliances.

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Astaro launches latest version of its flagship UTM appliance based on user feedback.

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Security managed services provider, Seccom Global buddied up with Astaro in a bit to offer its customers a tailored UTM package.

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It doesn’t take a Darwin to realize that security is evolving in the enterprise. Security vendor Astaro is taking evolution seriously and is turning to the environmental impact of the partner ecosystem to avoid an evolutionary dead end. With the release of version 7.5 of the Astaro Security Gateway, the company is proving that a great deal of value can be found in the channel partner and customer ecosystems. For channel partners, turning to a security vendor that understands technical evolution has its rewards.

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Kiwi business owners have traditionally been sticklers for detail when it comes to securing their businesses. They’ll stop at nothing to ensure that intruders can’t break into their premises – with security grates, bollards, monitored CCTV, patrols by the local security firm, and so on.

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Guy Coles, Astaro Vice President of APJ, is quoted in this article about securing their business data.

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Astaro Corporation, a 150-man German network security vendor started by a college dropout infected with the viral get-rich-quick fever that was pandemic at the turn of the century, is going to give away an open source-based business firewall for VMware.

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Astaro Corporation (network security vendor, today announced that Astaro will offer a Free Business Firewall for VMware. The free VMware firewall, which offers the base functionality of the Astaro Security Gateway Virtual Appliance using a special license key, will allow organizations with virtual environments to secure their network from external threats, as well as control and monitor communications between virtual machines. In addition, Astaro provides organizations with a free tool for centrally managing multiple Astaro products, the Astaro Command Center.

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Astaro's Regina Grieco named one of Everything Channels most powerful women in the channel.

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In the current economic climate, organisations are looking for greater flexibility and cost savings in their IT. Many are now considering outsourcing also their IT security to a third party or 'security as a service'. Andrew Fourie, UK country manager at Astaro, writes about how best to deploy security solutions in this way.

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Hacker spaces are community-operated physical spaces where people meet and collaborate on all forms of technology, culture and crafts in new and interesting ways. Members are encouraged to share research and discoveries and use what they learn to help educate others.

Astaro donated three Astaro Security Gateway appliances to this group as part of the company's ongoing commitment to educating the technology community about network security.

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We were ecstatic when we were contacted by the Astaro corporation who loved the idea so much, they not only wanted their hardware on the network but that they wanted to help expand the Project nationwide by donating appliances to each of us. Each hacker space has their hardware and over the next few weeks we will be hashing out the details and putting together the darknet.

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How has the UK's IT business been affected by the present economic situation and how have companies dealt with it? Andrew Fourie, Sales Director UK at Astaro, talked with IT Europa about why UTM and Astaro are still growing: Astaro offers the flexibility of hardware, software or virtual appliances. And with UTM, companies gain the ability to replace different point-based solutions and are therefore able to free bound resources to invest in new projects.

This article includes commentary from Astaro’s Tim Cronin regarding the new Google Chrome OS.

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Suggestions include real-time bandwidth monitoring, increased IPS performance on multicore installations and captive portal.

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The Astaro Security Gateway (ASG) 525 is the big brother of the ASG family. There are currently six models available with the smallest targeted at just 10 users, moving up from there. A software solution and virtual appliance are also available, so they have most bases covered.

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Interop event puts the spotlight on hundreds of the latest and greatest products to check in to the channelAstaro's Web Gateway This virtual appliance offers integrated URL filtering, malware detection, instant messaging and peer-to-peer application control, as well as bandwidth optimization to secure Web access.

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Astaro Secures The Web Astaro will debut the Astaro Web Gateway, a virtual appliance that offers integrated URL filtering, malware detection, instant messaging and peer-to-peer application control, as well as bandwidth optimization to secure Web access.

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ChannelWeb lists the 20 newest and hottest security products for SMBs. The lists includes the Astaro Web Gateway and Astaro Mail Gateway virtual appliances.

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Astaro Corporation, a network security vendor, has announced availability of Astaro Web Gateway and Astaro Mail Gateway as virtual appliances.

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Let's look back to the days when malware- and spyware-related issues were giving David Stephenson, IS manager at the 50-plus provider practice, Clark and Daughtrey Medical Group in Lakeland, Fla., a major headache.

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Summary The thinking behind the Astaro gateway is simple: the power of multiple open-source security applications, in a convenient, professionally supported appliance which updates itself with new firmware and attack signatures automatically.

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Security is certainly not a new concern for businesses today. It’s also not a small one. In fact, according to a recent study by Symantec, most SMBs are clearly aware of the threats that face them each time they access an application, send an email, or make a VoIP call. Rather, they are keenly aware of the need to protect their networks against viruses, spam, and data breaches - the top three concerns, according to the study.

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To protect networks and information against increasingly sophisticated threats, many organizations are deploying security in layers. Some are finding that an efficient way to do this is by using unified threat management (UTM) appliances. This article lists Astaro as a market leader in Unified Threat Management and describes recent product enhancements.

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Server Management outlines "the Astaro Security Gateway is easy to use and provides everything you could need in a single box".

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Security firm and VAD reveal a channel support programme to help resellers win SME business.

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The latest edition of SC Magazine features a product review for our very own Astaro Mail Gateway 3000 hardware appliance. The leading security industry publication awarded the all-in-one mail security solution a full 5 star rating in every possible category.

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Jan Hichert, Astaro CEO, is referenced throughout this article for his knowledge on web security trends and future outlook.

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Information Security Magazine gives Astaro Mail Gateway an overall A-, lauding the product’s end user management features. Final verdict: "An outstanding first offering, the Astaro Mail Gateway should be on the short list of anyone for a simple, small business anti-spam gateway."

Originally published in InfoWorld and also picked up by Yahoo! Tech News, this article examines the iPhone’s management tools and features Astaro’s compatibility with the iPhone’s IPsec VPN as a third party security option.

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This article features Astaro customer Clark and Daughtrey Medical Group as an example of a company finding additional functionality in their current security solution (Astaro Security Gateway).

Astaro is named one of the top 20 companies to watch in 2009 for the products' many unique features, including a local spam quarantine and a 7th generation AJAX-featured graphical user interface (GUI).

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ComputerWorld editor Jaikumar Vijayan outlines Astaro's Sonic Switch promotion, which gives 50% off the list prices on all Astaro hardware and software with the trade in of a SonicWall appliance.

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The Boston Business Journal announces Astaro’s headquarters move and notes important company growth statistics.

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Alex Goldman outlines Astaro’s Better than Barracuda Promotion, introduces the Astaro Mail Gateway and provides commentary from Jack Daniel, Astaro Support Engineer.

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SC Magazine praises Astaro Web Gateway 4000's simple deployment, versatile web access policies and unlimited users.

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PC Pro calls the Astaro Web Gateway 1000 "An easily deployed appliance with stiff web content filtering that can be customised with a wide range of access policies."

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E-Commerce Times outlines Astaro’s history, from small startup operation to highly successful player in the security space. Jan Hichert also explains where the company is headed.

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According to IT PRO, Astaro Web Gateway 3000 is a "sophisticated solution".

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Astaro's Vice President of Asia Pacific, Bryan Stibbard, speaks about how crooks are using PCI compliance as an entry point.
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Article explains how UTM appliances such as Astaro addresses the problems of supporting remote offices.
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Astaro has been selected, for the second year in a row, as a CRN Emerging Tech vendor for Astaro Security Gateway. CRN's Emerging Tech list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants.See Astaro's listing here.
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Astaro partner M5 Systems is featured in Business Solutions Magazine for their successful implementation of Astaro solutions in Cottonwood School District in Arizona.

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CRN highlights Astaro's most aggressive channel promotion ever.

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At Underwriters Safety & Claims, security abruptly rose to the top of IT Director Grant Nickle's to-do list late last fall when it became clear that the existing security system needed replacement.

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References Astaro Survey results from the RSA Conference in San Francisco earlier in the year. Discusses the growing concerns surrounding IT Security budgets in 2008.

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Christian Perry of Processor Magazine highlights which smaller companies should not be overlooked when shopping for security. Astaro is said to have "great potential" and is featured in a standout box.

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Frank Ohlhorst of the Tech Tidbits blog says Astaro offers compelling research on IT spending in the face of an economic recession and also offers his own take on the issue.

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Best Practices for deploying secure Web gateways.
Analysts, users point to cheap upgrades, understanding traffic patterns and flexible policy enforcement as crucial deployment elements.

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Information week utilizes results from Astaro’s RSA attendee survey to report that IT security budgets seem to be “recession proof”.
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Andrew Fourie, UK country manager at Astaro, helps to debunk the myth that open source security software is too risky for enterprise adoption.

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Astaro is noted as the best example of a company working to push the boundaries of UTM functionality.

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GWAVATV talks with Angelo Comazzetto, Product Evangelist at Astaro, about the Astaro product line and competitive advantage.

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The Astaro Security Gateway 320, running version 7.1 received top honors in the latest SC Magazine Unified Threat Management (UTM) group test. SC Magazine exclaims that the Astaro product is "a fully loaded gateway security device at a not so fully loaded price" and "it could become the only security appliance needed for total protection."

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Quiet Cisco PIX end-of-sale notice kindles PIX trade-in offer from Astaro. Cisco PIX users can get Astaro for big discount.

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Astaro surveyed 2,800 partners and end users, finding that 70 percent will increase budgets to prevent unauthorized access to networks and data.

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Astaro recognized as one of the few security vendors playing in firewall virtual server protection.

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What separates Astaro from the pack is its Linux foundation, which paves the way for the solution provider partners to capture 30 percent margins. Look for Astaro to continue to push the margin and technology envelope in 2008.

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While the iPhone is good at accessing public Web sites (like Google, Amazon.com or bMighty) and hosted Software-as-a-Service (like Salesforce.com), it’s been challenged by enterprise firewalls. That barrier is being broken thanks to new VPN features offered by Astaro.

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Windows IT Pro Magazine recommends Astaro stating "The Astaro Security Gateway 220’s broad feature set and ability to be implemented on many platforms make it a must-see. Take this flexible, highly configurable perimeter security system for a test drive."

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WLAN security, vulnerability scanning and web application firewalls were some of the investments that 65 percent of IT departments said they will be making during the next fiscal year, according to the results of a global market survey conducted by Astaro Corp., makers of unified threat management (UTM) security appliances.

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Email is so firmly established that few users stop to wonder what happens to their emails after they send them. Customer records, sales figures, marketing plans and other business confidential information are regularly attached to emails and sent, without a second thought, across the internet, an open communication medium. Udo Kerst, senior product manager, Astaro AG, looks at how to make email more secure.

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A global market survey from unified threat management solution makers Astaro Corp. notes that 70 percent of IT professionals surveyed plan on increasing their spending on network security in the next fiscal year.

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"While there are many vendors that specialize in content filtering and other application-level security, only a few vendors can truly claim that they have a UTM solution. Astaro is one...The Astaro Security Gateway 110/120 Version 7 arrives with the most security management features of all the products we reviewed."

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Developing, implementing, and maintaining an IT security strategy is a task so rife with stress and second guessing that it could probably give Rip Van Winkle insomnia. CRN recently asked several IT security experts for their take on some of the most common errors in judgment companies make when it comes to securing their networks.

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Astaro makes and markets a network appliance built on Linux and a complement of open source tools to help prevent spam, viruses, and other potential Internet intrusions. When Astaro's founders launched the company in 2000, venture capital funding for open source businesses was hard to find. CEO Jan Hichert says he and his colleagues tried but failed to secure funding and had to bootstrap. After the company was proved successful, VCs proved more willing to contribute to a company built on open source.

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It wasn't all mini golf at Astaro's booth. The vendor was also talking up its forthcoming Compliance Reporter, a new tool launching later this month that channel partners can use to perform risk assessments to determine whether customers are compliant with a multitude of federal regulations. Once information about a customer's network is entered into the tool, it generates a report detailing the level of compliance that customer has achieved. An annual subscription to the online tool costs $595 and the company is offering partners 40 percent margins.

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"To be acceptable for small or midsized companies, secure email transmission technology needs to be easy to install, administer and, to maximize simplicity, easy to combine with other security components," explains Udo Kerst, senior product manager, Astaro AG. "Its use by individual employees must be enforceable in order to allow company-wide security policy to be implemented, but the securing mechanisms should be transparent in use to avoid the need for costly training and to maintain employee productivity. Finally, the solution must be affordable for smaller businesses."

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The Astaro Security Gateway 120 is a full-featured perimeter protection device for small business. It's got a number of impressive, well-implemented features, and IT pros will appreciate the unit's excellent reporting and alerting systems.

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With the number and complexity of security threats continuing to increase, the benefits of UTM have established widespread market acceptance. One security appliance, rather than many, protecting an organization from all threats and managed through a single management interface, significantly reduces the overall cost of security. Astaro’s latest UTM software, Astaro Security Gateway version 7 (ASG v7), comes preloaded onto a range of hardware appliances and provides protection in over nine different security categories.

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In the market for network security products, the founders of Astaro Corp. have found security of their own in establishing a U.S. presence in this state, while focusing on a particular customer demographic.

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In addition to being selected to CRN's Emerging Tech List, Astaro was also chosen among the top "50 Emerging Vendors You Should Know" from a total field of 163 vendors.

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And the winner is... Astaro Security Gateway. (SC Magazine European Awards 2007).

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One reaction to those mounting lines of perimeter defense: consolidation. Kansas City Life Insurance, for one, replaced traditional, single-purpose devices with a hardware-software combination called a unified threat management (UTM) appliance (from Astaro). The device combines the firewall typical of perimeter defenses with intrusion prevention systems, anti-spam and antivirus software, and Web filtering.

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Udo Kerst, Senior Product Manager at Astaro, is one of the experts for secureIT - a magazine, website and electronic newsletter.

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The latest version of Astaro's UTM software offers comprehensive protection at an affordable price, says PC Pro, the influential IT magazine for experienced and professional users in the UK.

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The release of Astaro Command Center (ACC) 1.4 is picked up by SecureIT Online, a magazine, website and electronic newsletter.

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According to IDC, UTMs are the fastest growing segment of the security appliance market and by next year they will even outsell firewalls and VPNs. But finding the right UTM appliance will take some careful research and testing. Here are some questions to get you started down the right path, along with the leading products that satisfy each criteria.

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Nintendo has teamed up with Astaro for improved internet security through the Wii, as well as enhancing parental controls, as reported by gamesindustry.biz, the world's leading site for news and information about the global videogames industry.

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Astaro’s new Marketing Director EMEA Arne Klein is news at SecureIT Online, a magazine, website and electronic newsletter.

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The Linux channel revolution means businesses of all sizes are no longer tied to corporate giants for robust enterprise-class solutions, Quinonez said. Those old-school vendors are offering solutions that are at least double the cost of an Astaro unified threat management solution, he said.

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Secure mobile connectivity with Astaro is covered by Bios Magazine, a publication specialized in providing content specific to small businesses.

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Astaro’s "new directions are worth watching", says Linux Magazine, the premier resource for Linux and Open Source in enterprise computing.

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