URL Filter, Anti Virus and Spyware
The key functional areas that the web filtering module of the Astaro Security Gateway addresses are the ability to:
- Inspect all web and FTP traffic - perform fast, accurate filtering using Astaro’s unique content inspection framework.
- Stop viruses and spyware - achieve unmatched detection rates for known and unknown malware through two scan engines combined in a single product.
- Filter web access - grant web access through user and time settings. Assign policies based on sixty easy-to-navigate categories, containing over twenty million sites. Daily updates of newly discovered websites maximize automatic coverage.
Astaro Web Filtering can be ordered as an optional subscription and activated on all Astaro Security Gateway solutions, ensuring seamless integration with the Network Protection base license along with the Email Filtering and Email Encryption subscriptions.
You can choose to deploy the Astaro Security Gateway via your preference of:
- hardware appliance
- software appliance
- virtual appliance
Astaro Security Gateway unifies all of the web filtering components organisations require in a simple, unified platform. Fully integrated with the email filtering module and other security applications, Astaro eliminates the complexity and high costs associated with multiple point product solutions.
Key Features Include:
- High performance HTTP and FTP gateways
- Time, user and user group based filtering
- Authentication via Active Directory, eDirectory, RADIUS, Tacacs+, LDAP or Local
- Single sign-on for Active Directory and eDirectory
- Two independent Anti-virus engines with 300,000+ patterns plus zero-day heuristicsScanning of HTTP, FTP and webmail traffic
- Prevents infection and hidden communication through Spyware
- URL Filtering of 20+ million websites in 60 categories
- Filtering of active content such as Java, Active X, Flash, Cookies, VBScript or JavaScript
- Web proxy cache for bandwidth savings
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