Astaro Security Gateway Wins ‘Best Network Security’ Category in SC Magazine Awards 2007
Latest award for Unified Threat Management (UTM) security vendor.
London and Karlsruhe (Germany), (10th May, 2007) – Astaro Corporation (www.astaro.co.uk), a leader in delivering unified threat management (UTM) security appliances, was announced winner of the ‘Best Network Security’ category in the SC Magazine Awards 2007 with its Astaro Security Gateway. The win was announced at a special dinner organised by SC Magazine in London on 24 April 2007.
The SC Magazine Awards highlight and showcase the best products, services and professionals in the information security industry. After being voted a finalist in the ‘Readers Trust Awards’ by readers of SC Magazine, Astaro Security Gateway was selected as the winner of the hotly contested ‘Best Network Security’ category by a panel of judges comprised of independent industry experts.
Walter Schumann, VP Sales, Marketing and Support EMEA, said, “Winning SC Magazine’s ‘Best Network Security’ award, on top of other awards from ITPro, CRN, PC Magazine and PC Pr@xis, sends a clear message to users that Astaro provides market-leading, practical, easy-to-use, comprehensive and effective security solutions that meet customer’s developing security needs.”
The Astaro Security Gateway integrates a complete set of security technologies that comprise a mix of best of breed, open source and commercial software covering all aspects of security including email security (anti spam, anti phishing, dual virus protection for email, transparent encryption), web filtering (content filtering, anti virus for the web, anti spyware, and IM & P2P control), and network protection (firewall, remote access & VPN, and intrusion protection).
Astaro’s recently launched Version 7 of the Astaro Security Gateway contains a number of advanced features and enhancements. Among these are transparent e-mail encryption, SSL VPN, active/active clustering and safeguards for the uncontrolled flood of unsecured instant messaging traffic and peer-to-peer file sharing traffic.
About Astaro
Astaro Corporation is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. and Karlsruhe, Germany. The Astaro Security Gateway, simplifying Email, Web & Network Security, has won numerous industry awards and is protecting over 30,000 networks in 60 countries. Astaro products are distributed by a worldwide network of more than 1,000 solution partners who offer local support and services. For more information, please visit www.astaro.co.uk.
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