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We have made released the first maintenance update for V3 of the Astaro Command Center (ACC). A bugfix & stability release, this package will address certain issues in ACC 3.000 and increase the reliability of your installation. You can read the full details after the break.

The rise of television brought with it the golden age of mass marketing. Businesses selling consumer goods would pay large sums of money to have their ads featured during prime viewing hours and during popular programs and continues today with extravagant Superbowl ad space. Over the last decade with the explosion of online content and sophisticated database mining advertisers became more aware of demographic information that would allow them to become more targeted in their approach. Today, with the prevalence of Internet access and the amount of time consumers spend online, advertisers have moved away from mass marketing programs and are more focused on targeted and personalized marketing.

As 2011 comes to a close and we prepare to usher in a new year it is time to reflect on transgressions from the past 12 months and on how we can better ourselves in the coming year. In addition to making resolutions to lose weight or exercise more, we at Astaro, Sophos Network Security, urge you to consider committing to resolutions that will help secure your personal and business networks. Below are some suggestions for resolutions. At the turn of the year, it has become a tradition for many to seize the opportunity to leave one or the other bad habit behind and start anew.

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? In the past, connecting remote offices to the central network while maintaining an appropriate level of security was a complex and costly task.

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.

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.

Organizations need to be aware of the changing landscape of non-violent political expression. Socially minded hackers worldwide have expressed themselves in a variety of ways, from attacks against government websites to simple twitter hacks of celebrities to sending unintended endorsements of a political view or vote.

Hidden dangers of free expression