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To call the Astaro Security Gateway appliance just a UTM would be a major understatement. This product can be loaded with so many feature sets that it could become the only security appliance needed for total protection. Compliance experts have advised organisations not to rely solely on technology in their quest for compliance. This Linux-based device is the best looking product here, but it also packs a punch in terms of capability. The Astaro Security Gateway splits its protection into three categories. These categories are network protection, web filtering and email security. . IT security budgets for small and medium-sized businesses are set to rise next year, according to new research by Astaro.

Astaro's Security Linux 5.1 takes the open source Linux software and hardens it, but also adds commercial software for a complete security package. It comes with six components: firewall, VPN, anti-virus (provided by Kaspersky), content filtering, anti-spam and intrusion prevention.

IT security and content management vendor eSoft announced today that it has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against Astaro Corp., Barracuda Networks, Blue Coat, Fortinet and SonicWall for alleged infringement of its U.S. patent relating to software management technology. The ASG 425 is at the top end of Astaro’s 1U appliance range, with several smaller versions and two larger options available. The unit offers eight ports, but just one is active by default and is used for the internal segment (and web management). The rest must be specifically enabled and configured, which is our preferred default configuration: everything blocked by default. This software firewall is based on a hardened version of Linux. In January 2003, "Bank of America" was the most prominent victim of the aggressive "Slammer" computer virus that Richard Clarke, the former top adviser to President George W. Bush on cybersecurity, simply called "a dumb worm". Having just reviewed the Astaro Security Gateway 220 for an SME-focused group test (where it won Best Buy), we were a little surprised to see the box resubmitted for this enterprise test, but we are told the higher capacity boxes sport the same set of features: only throughput varies. The ASG 425, for example, supports 1 Gbps and 700,000 concurrent connections. At first glance, the idea of using open source software for a firewall or other security application seems counterintuitive, even absurd. In a tight economy, it’s easy to believe that postponing investments is fiscally responsible. It was recently reported that the worldwide market for IT security and business continuity products and services is growing twice as fast as overall IT industry. By 2006, this market is expected to surpass $150 billion (IDC, 2002).

Based on a Toshiba Magnia SG20 solution developer kit, this unit runs a special version of Linux created by Astaro. It includes a firewall, VPN, DHCP server, traffic management and content filter. The latter includes web blocking and anti-spam.
The firewall uses stateful packet inspection and includes proxies for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, DNS, IDENT and SOCKS. It has user authentication and offers protection from the most common forms of DoS attacks. Of course, it provides network address translation. In addition it detects port scanning.

We looked at version 3.0 of this product in the virtual private network Group Test last year, and it is good to see it being evaluated as a firewall this time around. Astaro might not be a familiar name to most people, but it deserves to be if it continues to produce products such as this.