Astaro Blog

Over the past few weeks, hordes of strange and frightening monsters invaded our website. Fortunately only in a metaphorical sense – however they would have had a day thanks to our Complete Security package which eliminates all threats thoroughly. The monsters we are speaking of are the ones from our creative competition and built with bricks.

We are proud to announce that we have been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant of Gartner, Inc’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management. The quadrant is based on an assessment of a company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision.

SC Magazine tested Astaro Security Gateway recently and awarded the highest score of 5 stars in each sub category. Of course we are very proud of this result. But read the tester's results by yourself: "The Astaro Security Gateway is a flexible, full gateway security appliance that can be deployed and configured to fit almost any environment. This product is available as a full hardware appliance, software installation or virtual appliance. The Security Gateway offers firewall and intrusion prevention protection along with application control, web content filtering, gateway anti-virus, email content filtering and anti-spam."

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.

Astaro recently joined the Cloud Security Alliance(CSA) along with Sophos and is now looking into further cooperation and speaking opportunities with the group. The CSA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The association is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders.

The it-sa has established itself as one of the leading fairs regarding IT security in the German speaking market over the last years. In 2011 the fair expects about 7.000 visitors from industry, science and public authorities. Beyond question that Astaro presents its portfolio and upcoming releases at the event in Nuremberg together with the distribution partners TLK and Infinigate.

Our popular "Tips & Tricks" webinar series is now entering its seventh next round and the live session will take place in December 2011. Sign up today and secure your place!