Astaro Security Labs earns ICSA Certification

ASTARO SECURITY LINUX EARNS ICSA LABS CERTIFICATION

Astaro achieves highest level of ICSA Labs Firewall
Certification under Corporate Category

BURLINGTON, Mass. – June 8, 2004 – Astaro Corp.,
developers of the most popular Open Source based
all-in-one security product, today announced that its
flagship network security application, Astaro Security
Linux Version 5, has fulfilled the criteria and passed
the 4.0 test for ICSA Labs’ Firewall Product
Certification. 

ICSA Labs®, an independent division of TruSecure®
Corporation, tests and certifies over 90 percent of the
security technology products in the world.
Certification ensures customers that Astaro Security
Linux offers the highest level of firewall protection.

“Security continues to be increasingly important as
organizations develop and deploy networks,” said George
Japak, vice president of ICSA Labs. “By subjecting its
product to the ICSA Labs testing, Astaro demonstrates
its commitment to providing superior network security.
Products like Astaro Security Linux can play a
significant role at every stage of development for a
network.”

Astaro CEO and co-founder Jan Hichert said, “Our
customers place a high level of trust in ICSA Labs and
value its certification process as verification of our
security products. We consider ICSA Labs certification
an important part of our overall product cycle. It
demonstrates the commitment of the Linux developer
community at large, one that has contributed immensely
to helping Astaro users lock down their networks.” 

Comprised of some 80 Open Source projects plus the
Company’s own management platform and update service,
Astaro Security Linux is a comprehensive network
security product for midsized to large businesses. It
combines a firewall, VPN gateway, intrusion protection,
virus protection, spam protection and surf protection
(URL filtering). This complete software solution
bundles a hardened Linux operating system that can run
on any x86-compatible hardware, and is also available
as a pre-installed appliance solution.

The company also offers its Astaro Configuration
Manager, an automated policy definition tool that
creates and distributes security policy configurations
for multiple locations.

About Astaro
Astaro provides a network security solution that is
complete, simple to manage, affordable and effective.
Astaro selects and integrates the best of open source
security software to provide the widest range of
innovative security technology available in a single
package: Astaro Security Linux. Astaro's software has
won numerous awards, and is in use on over 20,000
networks in more than 60 countries. Astaro Security
Linux is distributed by a worldwide network of
solutions partners who offer local support and services.
(www.astaro.com)

About ICSA Labs
ICSA Labs, an independent division of TruSecure
Corporation, offers vendor-agnostic testing and
certification of security products. Hundreds of the
world's top security vendors submit their products for
testing and certification at ICSA Labs. The end-users
of security technologies rely on ICSA Labs to
authoritatively set and apply objective testing and
certification criteria for measuring product compliance
and reliability. The organization tests products in key
technology categories such as anti-virus, firewall,
IPSec VPN, cryptography, intrusion detection, PC
firewall, content security, SSL-VPN and wireless LAN.
For more information about ICSA Labs, visit
http://www.icsalabs.com.
ICSA, ICSA Labs and TruSecure are registered trademarks
of TruSecure Corporation. All other trademarks and
service marks mentioned herein are property of their
respective owners.

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U.S. Press Contact: 
Victor Cruz
+1 508 785 1590
vcruz@astaro.com

Germany Press Contact:
Heiko Scholz
+49 6451 715105
hscholz@astaro.com