Patrick Sweeney, VP of Product Management for SonicWALL, discusses the new TZ series of Unified Threat Management appliances.
Astaro Security Gateway voted WindowSecurity.com Reader’s First Runner-Up
Astaro was selected as the first runner-up in the Software-based Firewall category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. WindowSecurity.com is the leading Windows Security resource site and bases its award solely on visitor's votes. For more information you can read the press release here
64-bit AX Series and ACOS
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7.500 HA Notice
A small issue is present in the 7.500 release which can cause some installations which are using active/passive HA to behave like an active/active cluster. Customers with active/passive HA configurations shouldn't update until 7.501 is released next week. However, if you have already updated to 7.500 and now experience some surfing issues or erratic behavior with your active/passive HA system, please contact support and they will be happy to apply a small workaround for you, or read on for the fix if you would like to apply it yourself via the command line until 7.501 is officially released
Shift in how we store data may protect credit card information better
A recent article in CNN Money titled “Cybercrime: A secret underground economy” discussed the existence of organized crime in cyber-crime and how organized crime has turned cyber-crime into a multi-million dollar a year industry. The article provided some great insight into the black market of cyber-crime. The fact is, most of the organized crime has turned to cybercrime as the next generation of how they make money
AxG V7.5 Release Completed
Completing our launch process of Version 7.5, we have released the V7.500 Up2Date to our existing installation base. Users will now be able to update to V7.5 from their existing installations. Two packages have been released, one for the 7.405 users, and another for those still at the last Beta of 7.490.
Astaro releases version 7.5 of the Astaro Security Gateway
Astaro officially released version 7.5 of the Astaro Security Gateway today. The new version of the Unified Threat Management product includes several enhancements such as an improved Intrusion Protection Engine, multicast support, and real-time bandwidth monitoring capabilities. Many of the new features included in this new version were included in the release due to user feedback on Astaro's new Feature request site.
Basic Security Tips part 2 – Effective passwords
A while back I published a post about locking your computer to make it safe. In this post we will discuss how to create passwords that are hard to crack but easy to remember to keep your personal computer, accounts and company network more secure. In an attempt to remember our work email password, our personal email password, our bank password, our network access password, etc
AxG 7.5 ISO Images Available
Continuing with our V7.5 release schedule, we have released the ISO images of V7.5 for all Astaro Gateway products. Next week on October 5th, we will distribute V7.5 as an Up2Date to all installations via our Content Distribution Network
Knowing is half the battle
Network security is a daily and complicated struggle for most network administrators who strive to keep on top of the latest virus outbreaks, network intrusion attempts, software patches, and web and email scams. Comprehensive Network security today requires a layered approach so that internal network resources can be properly protected against all the different types of malicious content out there. Properly designing and maintaining a network to guard against these attacks can be a challenge to even the most seasoned admin