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.
  

• 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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