Astaro security gateway software price

If you purchase through links on our site, we may earn a commission. Learn more. As with many other network security companies Astaro started life with a simple Linux based product that turned a donor system into a fully fledged firewall.

Its Security Gateway software still provides these features and more and the latest v7 is now available in a range of preconfigured appliances. The main differences are the amount of traffic the appliance can handle with the restricted to Mbps of firewall throughput. The web interface is well designed and v7 offers a new dashboard showing the status of each security component along with appliance resource usage graphs and a quick glance threat status chart.

The appliance defaults to blocking all web traffic which means you need to get handy with packet filtering rules if you want to open up access to specific services. However, we would recommend getting your network and service objects defined first as these are made available to all other security functions making it much easier to create rules.

Packet filters determine what traffic is allowed to pass between different networks and multiple rules are applied strictly in the order they appear in the filter table.

The SMTP and POP3 proxies are also easy enough to set up with the former requiring details of your email domains and internal mail servers. From the web proxy page you can activate anti-virus scanning and the appliance uses a two-pronged attack with the open source ClamAV and less well known Authentium products on the case.

These use a barrage of defences to spot spam and score messages appropriately. You can quarantine them on the internal hard disk to be viewed, released or deleted and creating extra users allows this task to be delegated.

Web content filtering is accessed from the HTTP proxy page where you have eighteen categories to pick and choose from. During testing we found the content filters worked well and so they should as the URL black list database used by Astaro is one of the largest currently available. Reporting is also good as ASL can generate masses of graphs on a range of traffic data along with comprehensive logs and executive reports.

During testing we found the ASG performed well and we were extremely impressed with the level of features on offer. It is undoubtedly a powerful security solution that looks good value although we felt that small businesses with up to ten users are likely to have limited technical know-how may and may find the appliance difficult to configure.

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