Astaro Announces Version 3 of Its All-in-One Firewall/ VPN Gateway/ Anti-Virus/Content Filtering Software Appliance.Business/Technology Editors NetWorld+Interop 2002 Las Vegas LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2002 Networld + Interop Conference (Booth #2949) - Astaro Corporation, an Internet security vendor, today announced version 3 of its combined Astaro Security Linux firewall/ VPN/ anti-virus/content filtering security software. This complete software appliance also bundles a hardened Linux kernel. Headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, the Astaro Security Linux software is one of the world's most popular and certainly most affordable server-based Firewall/VPNs with 5,000 registered customers and some 180,000 users, including such diverse organizations as EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Los Alamos National Labs and Stanford University. The Firewall's stateful packet inspection See stateful inspection. guards against denial-of-service attacks such as SYN and UDP UDP (uridine diphosphate): see uracil. (User Datagram Protocol) A protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite that is used in place of TCP when a reliable delivery is not required. floods, Smurf, Trinoo and IP spoofing. The VPN authenticates via IPsec and Pre-shared Key, and its PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) A protocol from Microsoft that is used to create a virtual private network (VPN) over the Internet. Remote users can access their corporate networks via any ISP that supports PPTP on its servers. offers 128-bit encryption. Throughput is 33 Mbps using IPsec encryption and 650 Mbps without. The new Astaro Security Linux v3 release features round-robin load balancing, Surf Protection (URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. blocking) and a new High Availability module. Other features include an Up2Date service that automatically updates new virus signatures and URL black lists, a WebAdmin tool that allows for remote administration, Quality of Service (QoS), enhanced support for DSL and cable modem Internet access and PKI-Support with certified X.509v3. Distribution of Astaro products is done through a network of premier partners and resellers worldwide. More than 80 partners including Pyramid Computers and InfoGuard resell the product as a software solution running on commodity Intel hardware or combined as an appliance. Pricing & Availability Version 3 will be available at www.astaro.com in May. With an entry license price of $390, the Astaro Security Linux product is an affordable alternative to high-cost, high-maintenance firewalls such as those offered by Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), Check Point (Nasdaq:CHKP CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) and NetScreen (Nasdaq:NSCN NSCN National Socialist Council of Nagalim NSCN Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature NSCN Navy Satellite Control Network ). About Astaro Founded in January 2000 by security specialists in Karlsruhe, Germany, Astaro has had more than 180,000 trial copies of its firewall downloaded worldwide and continues at a rate of 4,000 per week. Customers include small and medium size businesses as well as subsidiaries and branches of larger corporations. www.astaro.com. U.S. Address: Astaro Corp. 67 South Bedford St., Suite 400W. Burlington, MA, USA . Tel. (781) 369-1480. E-Mail: info@astaro.com Germany Address: Astaro AG . Jahnstr. 1 . 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany. Tel. 0721 / 490 069 0. E-Mail: info@astaro.com. |
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