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| Astaro Security Gateway Version 6.2 Astaro Corporation has announced a new release of its award-winning Astaro Security Gateway (ASG) appliance designed to permit users of Novell BorderManager to migrate to Astaro Security Gateway V6.2 quickly and easily. With the new functionality in ASG V6.2, it becomes the product of choice for Novell customers seeking to protect their investments in technology now and in the future. ASG V6.2 offers users of Novell products, including Groupwise and eDirectory, exciting new functionality that makes it easy to integrate modern, advanced unified threat management appliances into existing Novell installations. Astaro Security Gateway V6.2 now includes: * A single sign-on (SSO) capability for Novell eDirectory users. With ASG V6.2 eDirectory SSO, Novell users will only need to authenticate once at initial client login to gain web access to the Internet. Based on the ASG V6.2 SSO authenticated user, user-, group- and/or container-based access control and content inspection profiles are assigned. Once authentication is complete, the entire Web security capabilities of Astaro Security Gateway are applied to traffic flows based on the user, including prevention of phishing, virus and spam attacks, without the need for further authentication at the browser level. This high level of integration with Novell eDirectory services delivers improved administrator productivity, vastly enhanced security and excellent end-user transparency. * A new eDirectory tree browser integrated into ASG's easy-to-use WebAdmin interface. With the eDirectory browser, administrators logged into the ASG V6.2 appliance can quickly and easily select users, user groups or containers and add them to access control profiles or Web content inspection policies. With the ASG V6.2 eDirectory browser, administrators can easily manage user-based Web access control at the gateway without writing complex Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) rules or having to manage LDAP Distinguished Names (DNs). * A new "generic proxy" which supports any TCP and/or UDP application that needs to be reachable through the security gateway. Astaro Security Gateways employ a unique intrusion prevention architecture to manage security in all traffic flowing into and out of the network. ASG currently supplies dedicated application proxies for common protocols, such as the Web (HTTP, FTP), email (SMTP, POP3), and others (DNS, SOCKS). With the generic proxy, Novell users will be able to ensure that Novell and other application traffic is reachable through the security gateway while ensuring the same level of security management that is provided for traffic routed through the supplied protocol-specific proxies. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |