- Astaro
Infobox_Company | company_name = Astaro AG
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = Simplifying Email, Web & Network Protection
foundation =2000
location = Karlsruhe, Germany andBoston, Massachusetts
key_people =Stanley Krasnow , Chairman
Jan Hichert , CEOMarkus Hennig , CTOGert Hansen , CSA| num_employees = 130
industry =Security software ,Security appliances ,Internet security | products =Security Appliances filtering Spam,Spyware ,Viruses and otherMalware
revenue = Undisclosed
homepage = [http://www.astaro.com www.astaro.com]Astaro, founded in
2000 , is a company that sellscomputer software and hardware that aims to protect against Internet threats such as system intruders, viruses, spam, and spyware. The company has headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany, and inBoston, Massachusetts .The company's
Unified Threat Management product line Astaro Security Gateway is available as software and hardware appliance, and protects over 30,000 corporate networks todayref|protectednetworknumber.Astaro is working closely with the
open source community to develop its products, although its business model is to sell software licenses and subscriptions. With over 100 employees, Astaro is one of the larger, second-generation, open-source companies worldwide.Fact|date=March 2007 Other so called second-generation, open-source companies includeMySQL AB andJBoss .In 2005, Astaro coined the term
Network Assurance to describe the benefit of safe and reliable networks.Open source projects that are sponsored or supported by Astaro include:
Netfilter ,ClamAV ,Openswan ,strongSwan , andOpenVPN . Astaro has sponsored the TWiT Network's "Security Now! "podcast withSteve Gibson since 6 April, 2006 (episode #34)ref|securitynowsponsor.References
#cite web
title = Astaro product page quoting number of networks protected by Astaro
url=http://www.astaro.co.uk/references/astaro_customers
accessdate = 2007-02-13
#cite web
title = Transcript of Security Now! Episode #34
url=http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-034.htm
accessdate = 2006-09-10External links
* [http://www.astaro.com/ Corporate website]
* [http://www.astaro.ca/ Canadian website]
* [http://www.astaro.org/ User community]
* [http://www.astaro.com/purchase/partners/europe/united_kingdom List of all UK distributors of Astaro products]
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