Astaro and Sophos technologies. Starting from Monday 16 July Sophos UTM 9 (the new version of the Astaro Security Gateway) delivers unified threat management complete with endpoint protection.

With UTM 9, you can expect these highlights:

• Endpoint Protection: This new subscription blocks malware and prevents data loss. Sophos innovative approach and Sophos LiveConnect let you manage all endpoints no matter where they are – even outside of your network. Your computers are always up-to-date and you can roll out new policies at any time.
• Integrated Sophos antivirus engine: By using two commercial antivirus engines (Sophos and Avira) Sophos even improved performance of the antivirus detection. This allows you to run different antivirus scanners on your gateway and on the endpoints and comply with IT security recommendations.
• HTML5-VPN-Portal: This feature allows you to implement a browser based application portal using HTML5. Your users gain secure remote access to internal network resources through applications like VNC, remote desktop, SSH and many more – without installing software or leaving any traces behind.
• Wireless hotspot support: You can provide guests and visitors with temporary internet access based on vouchers. These vouchers define the validity period, time quota and data volume and can be easily created from within the end-user portal.
• Many new features: New webAdmin GUI look, customizable dashboard, Apple iOS support for WebAdmin (and other touch enabled devices), 1:1 NAT Rules, SSL VPN without admin rights, HA/Clustering Cold-Standby option during Up2Date, new constant Live-Log button, support for network definition ranges, download and distribution of user VPN configurations, better support of virtualization platforms from Vmware, KVM, Citrix and HyperV, time-based wireless networks, site path routing for webserver protection, protection against modern ddos attcks like starvation attacks slow hhtp attacks and other, support for international characters & spaces in SSL VPN, multiple path routing support in BGP.

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