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Astaro Press Corner

For more information on press releases, please contact your local Astaro media representative: Mr. Joerg Schindler for the EMEA region on +49-721-255160; Ms. Jessica Lavery-Pozerski for the AMER region on +1-781-7437433 or Ms. Cheryl Tuquib for the Asia region on +65-622-72700. High resolution images and management team biographies and headshots are freely available for download on the right side of all press corner pages.

Format: 2012
2012/01/30
Astaro’s New Wireless Access Point AP50 Supports 5 GHz Connections

Astaro, a Sophos company and leading Unified Threat Management (UTM) provider, today announced the availability of AP50, its new dual-band/dual-radio capable wireless access point. The new addition to Astaro's wireless access point family supports both WLAN frequency bands at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and enables fast and reliable wireless networking which is virtually impervious to radio interference.

2012/01/11
Version 8.3 of Astaro Security Gateway Brings UTM to the Cloud

Astaro – a Sophos Company and leading Unified Threat Management (UTM) provider, announced the availability of version 8.300 of the Astaro Security Gateway (ASG). With the ability to launch the Astaro Security Gateway in the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud and connect to the Amazon VPC using local Astaro installation with the new VPC Connector, the new version considerably extends Astaro’s UTM capabilities into the cloud.

2011/10/02
Astaro Promotes Cyber Security Awareness with New Campaign

Initiative provides information to help parents, children and businesses stay safe online

2011/09/07
Astaro Releases Next Evolution of Popular Branch Office Security Product, Astaro RED

Enhancements make Astaro RED even easier to deploy and manage.

2011/08/10
Astaro Security Gateway Version 8.2 Establishes A New Generation of UTM

New features increase visibility, performance and control of networks.

2011/07/26
Astaro’s Regina Vignone Recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as One of the Top Women of the Channel

Annual list recognizes female executives for their accomplishments as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel.

2011/07/20
Astaro Announces Successful Completion of MSPAlliance Vendor Accreditation Program

Astaro a Sophos company and leading Unified Threat Management provider, today announced that it has received accreditation under the MSPAlliance’s (MSPA) Vendor Accreditation Program (VAP).

2011/07/12
Museum of Science to Use Network Security Products and Services from Astaro

Astaro has donated Astaro Security Gateway appliances, web and network subscriptions, technical support hours and seats of the Astaro Mail Archiving service to the Museum of Science.

2011/07/06
Sophos Broadens Security Portfolio with Completion of Astaro Acquisition

Rapid Increase in complex security threats and adoption of web-based applications requires new generation of robust network security protection.

2011/06/22
Astaro Security Solution Helps Clanton Police Department Protect and Serve Community
With Astaro Clanton can keep police officers in the field, making community safer.
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Astaro Blog

2012-02-07 by Jessica Pozerski

Just about anywhere you go you will find a Wireless Wi-Fi Network. Your local Starbucks, hotels, bars, and even department stores now offer customers wireless access to the Internet. The question then comes to mind; are you secured when connecting to these Wi-Fi networks? This questions especially important this time of year when everyone is out doing their holiday shopping.

Tags: Perspectives
2012-02-02 by Angelo Comazzetto

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.

2012-02-01 by Joerg Schindler

The creative heads at Astaro - a Sophos company have thrown the ball to you... or rather the bricks!

Tags: News
2012-01-23 by Cameron Byers

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.

Tags: Perspectives
2012-01-10 by Angelo Comazzetto

I am pleased to announce that we have released ASG 8.300 via our Up2Date distribution network. The main features of this release are Amazon Machine Images of Astaro Security Gateway (along with Astaro Command Center), an integrated connector for the Amazon Private Cloud (VPC), ASG Site-to-Site VPN Tunnels using our RED protocol, support for our Wireless AP50 product, and BGP4 routing support. In addition, we have added numerous tweaks, dozens of stability improvements and increased the performance of many features. This release will solidify your ASG V8 installation and give you the best Astaro experience yet. The release notes for this version can be found here, while summary and download information can be found by reading on.

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