Astaro Security Linux

Astaro protects corporate networks against Internet threats such as system intruders, viruses, spam, and spyware. The company was founded in 2000 and is dual headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany and Boston, USA.

The company's Unified Threat Management product line Astaro Security Gateway is available as software and hardware appliance, and protects over 30,000 corporate networks today[1].

Astaro is working closely with the open source community to develop its products, although its business model is to sell software licenses and subscriptions. With over 100 employees, Astaro is one of the larger, second-generation, open-source companies worldwide.

To defend networks, organizations often use point products such as IPS systems, VPN routers, and firewalls. This requires not only maintaining multiple products, but also continuously assuring that these products are integrated to fully protect your network.

The Astaro Security Gateway eliminates these issues, providing a single, easy-to-manage, unified network protection solution:

• Control network access. Use the latest stateful deep inspection firewall techniques to control which users can access what information at what time
• Stop intruders. Apply state-of-the-art Intrusion Prevention technologies for in-depth filtering against more than 6,000 attacks and zero day attacks
• Secure remote access. Use SSL, IPSec or PPTP protocols to create secure Virtual
  Private Networks, connecting branch offices and granting remote access
  to workers
• Optimize performance. Leverage our patent-pending Content Inspection Framework to scan traffic with little or no latency and reserve bandwidth for time-sensitive applications such as VoIP
• FREE GPL License covering 10 ip's