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Evolution of online attacks mirrors the history of advertising
The rise of television brought with it the golden age of mass marketing. Businesses selling consumer goods would pay large sums of money to have their ads featured during prime viewing hours and during popular programs and continues today with extravagant Superbowl ad space.
Five Security Resolutions for 2012
As 2011 comes to a close and we prepare to usher in a new year it is time to reflect on transgressions from the past 12 months and on how we can better ourselves in the coming year. In addition to making resolutions to lose weight or exercise more, we at Astaro, Sophos Network Security, urge you to consider committing to resolutions that will help secure your personal and business networks
Konnichiwa! – Japanese Website Available
Once again we have expanded the language sphere of our website! From now on Japanese visitors can get information about the complete Astaro portfolio and the company itself in their native language. So if you are Japanese or just want to get an interesting new optical approach to our products you can view the new site here: www.astaro.com/ja-jp Furthermore, the new Japanes datasheets can be found here: http://www.astaro.com/ja-jp/resources/datasheets READ MORE
ASG Up2Date 8.203 Released
We've released Up2Date 8.203 today. This Up2Date will enhance the stability and performance of your ASG installation. Of note is the reverting of the default SMTP RDNS checks to a more relaxed way, however the more effective “strict” options remains available for admins looking to combat spam with the tightest measures.
Astaro Security Gateway V8.2 Competition Results
With the release of Astaro Security Gateway V8.2 a few months ago, we celebrated by running a competition where users could win an Apple iPad2. Over five thousand people tried their luck, but there could only be one! And that “one” is Mr. Alexander Schapeit (pictured right) from Tenovis Direct GmbH who was lucky enough to be selected at random to claim the prize
Hacktivism: How to stay one step ahead of this troublesome trend
Organizations need to be aware of the changing landscape of non-violent political expression. Socially minded hackers worldwide have expressed themselves in a variety of ways, from attacks against government websites to simple twitter hacks of celebrities to sending unintended endorsements of a political view or vote
Making sense of log management
Bringing together all your information to make better decisions. Firewalls, routers, intrusion prevention systems, web content filters, mail gateways, application servers, authentication servers, host-based intrusion prevention, end point client software. The list of devices and applications that generate security logs already seems endless, and yet the list continues to grow as new security tools are used in response to the ever-evolving threat landscape.
Astaro enters Cloud Security Alliance
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.
A new internet threat every 4.5 seconds
Twice a year Sophos publishes its Security Threat Report.