Astaro Security Linux
Astaro Security Linux is an all-in-one network security gateway that includes a firewall, intrusion protection, virus protection, spam protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway. Features include stateful packet inspection, deep packet filtering, intrusion detection and prevention, portscan detection, content filtering, virus detection for email and Web traffic, profile handling, L2TP, IPSec, SSL, and PPTP VPN tunneling, spam blocking, proxies for HTTPS, HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS, VoIP, SOCKS, and Ident, logging, and reporting. It supports Ethernet, VLAN, PPP, PPPoE, PPPoA, Cable Modem, QoS, Link Aggregation, WAN-Uplink-Loadbalancing in routing, and bridge mode. The WebAdmin, the Install Wizard, and Up2Date service make it easy to install, manage, and update.
| Tags | Firewalls Networking UTM Proxy Filter Security |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Free for non-commercial use |
| Operating Systems | Linux |
| Translations | English French Chinese Japanese Korean German |
Recent releases
- 13 Jul 2009 14:56
Changes: Improvements were made to features. A lot of areas were cleaned up to make them more production-ready. The quality and speed of the entire release was advanced. This large Up2Date includes improvements to SSL VPN, WebAdmin, HTTP Proxy, Reporting, and the Flow Monitor, along with most other areas of the Beta.
- 09 Jul 2009 10:33
Changes: This Up2Date package is mainly being released to address a published security concern regarding IPsec. A few small adjustments were made to DHCP, Cable modem, and PPPoE-DSL, addressing some minor issues.
- 19 Jun 2009 13:41
Changes: This is a pure bugfix and stability release. It addresses approximately 75% of the reported issues communicated on the 7.500 Beta Forums. It also addresses and fixes issues found by the project teams in house. It's visible and available only on 7.5 BETA installations.
- 15 Jun 2009 17:09
Changes: This is a stability release with several minor bugfixes. It adds support for new Up2Date servers and cloud deployment for firmware updates.
- 02 Jun 2009 14:34
Changes: This release includes new things that were posted, submitted, or reviewed by partners and end users via the new feature request portal. Intrusion protection performance was improved. A real-time bandwidth monitor was added. An import/export widget was added. Transparent authentication is supported for Web security. Objects can be cloned. Network security reporting was extended. Reputation is support for Web security. DHCP improvements were made. A multicast routing daemon was added. Hundreds of other things were done.
- All comments
Recent commentsvery good solution
i was looking for a new Security Solution which has integrated an IDS, Proxies, Content Filtering an Anti-Spam mechanism. I checked and tested a lot of UTM Solutions but i was absolutely surprised that this product (which has quiete a lot of more functionality than i was looking for..) has integrated the globale Players from the market (Surf Control, Utimaco, Snort, ..)for a very cheap price in an easy to manage Product.
I hope they will go ahead this way in the future..
Re: looks very nice
> Is there a trial period???
Yes: 30 days, everything enabled, no limitations
After that period, you can request a free home use license at https://my.astaro.com - also everything enabled, but restricted for 10 users.
> Before I try
> this can anyone tell me if this is free
> to use and no limitation even with 50
> hosts?
Re: looks very nice
Is there a trial period??? Before I try this can anyone tell me if this is free to use and no limitation even with 50 hosts?
Astaro is excellent
There is a lot of misconception in regards to security due to security vendors and their marketing.
The truth is, there is no magic pill in regards to securing your network. You don't just install Product X into your rack cabinet and your network is "secured". Behind all the marketing of security companies, real security comes from the sysadmin who has to enforce the security policy. As someone who does IT security for a living, what Astaro has done is put together a comprehensive security toolset buit from OSS that is EASY to admin and enforce the policy. There is no wonder they were awarded PC Magazine's Best Product of the Year for Business Security Solution. I've recommended the product to my colleagues in IT security and they all love Astaro.
If anything, Astaro should be considered a Linux/OSS success story, and I would recommend it to anyone.
The new V5 beta (4.720) is very hot....
Hey guys...
the beta of V5 (4.720) is very cool.
Congradulations to the developer and the other guys who make it possible to take out such a product ;-).
To all critics (like jeff2000uka ) let me say....
"Install it, use it and understand it". If you reached this three points, you can adjudicate if it bad that Astaro started wit Version 1.7 !
I look forward for the stable V5.
regards
ronnerich