Astaro and eIQnetworks to Provide Centralized Security Reporting Tool for Astaro Security Linux

PRESS RELEASE

Astaro and eIQnetworks to Provide Centralized Security
Reporting Tool for Astaro Security Linux

BURLINGTON, Mass. – August 23, 2004 – Astaro
(www.astaro.com), developers of the most popular open
source-based network security product in use at over 20,000
networks, today announced that it has entered into an OEM
licensing agreement with eIQnetworksÔ, Inc., a leading
provider of award-winning security, applications and
systems analytics solutions.

Terms of the agreement call for eIQnetwork’s
FirewallAnalyzer™, the industry’s first browser-based,
cross-platform Firewall/VPN analysis and reporting
solution, to be resold by Astaro to support its customers’
needs to quickly gather and analyze security event
information generated from the Astaro Security Linux
network security software and other network security
products. 

FirewallAnalyzer permits administrators to gain insight
into security breaches, to understand network usage
patterns, and to pinpoint the source and severity of
threats and attacks. Administrators can collect, correlate,
analyze, and report on data related to network traffic and
to viruses, worms, probes, inappropriate web usage and
other threats to security and productivity.  

“This means that Astaro users will have a reporting
mechanism they can use to monitor the health of the network
itself, to analyze attacks, to troubleshoot problems, and
to track patterns and trends over time,” said Jon Hichert,
CEO of Astaro. “The detailed logging information collected
by Astaro Security Linux will be available in a form that
is easy to understand and use, so that Astaro customers can
respond more quickly to threats and have more complete
control over their security infrastructure. It will also
give Astaro’s solutions partners an attractive new addition
to our product line.”

Astaro Security Linux is a comprehensive network security
product for midsized to large businesses. Comprised of some
80 Open Source projects plus Astaro’s own management
platform and update service, it combines a firewall, VPN
gateway, intrusion protection, virus protection, spam
protection and surf protection (URL filtering). 

”This partnership allows eIQnetworks to extend leading
security analytics to customers who are depending on Astaro
Security Linux for network perimeter security,” said Vijay
Basani, CEO of eIQnetworks. “This relationship continues
our advancement in becoming the industry standard for the
most comprehensive security analysis and management
solutions.”

eIQnetwork’s FirewallAnalyzer comes with hundreds of
reports to help security administrators take proactive and
preventive actions against cyber threats. Reports identify
attack and virus activity across a variety of enterprise
network devices and servers, including multi-vendor
firewalls, routers, IDS/IPS devices, anti-virus gateway
solutions, proxy servers and web security appliances. It
delivers valuable information such as attack type, virus
type, source, destination, frequency, file type, file
extension and viruses by protocol. 

About eIQnetworks
Founded in 2001, eIQnetworks is a leading provider of award
winning security, and systems analytics solutions.
eIQnetworks products collect, normalize, correlate,
analyze, monitor, alert and report on activity across
Windows, UNIX and Linux systems, firewalls, IDS / IPS
devices, routers, proxy servers, web security appliances,
and mail, web, caching and anti-virus servers to allow IT
professionals to maximize infrastructure resource
utilization, improve systems uptime and improve network
security against attacks, viruses and network abuses. The
Company’s products are available worldwide through an
extensive distributor network. The eIQ Analytics Series of
products are available for trial download at
www.eIQnetworks.com.

About Astaro
Astaro was founded in January 2000 and today is
co-headquartered in Burlington, Mass. and Karlsruhe,
Germany. Astaro's software has won numerous industry
awards, and is deployed on over 20,000 networks in 60
countries, including such companies as Blue Cross/Blue
Shield, Los Alamos National Labs, Stanford University and
Watsco, Inc. Astaro Security Linux is distributed by a
worldwide network of 350 solutions partners who offer local
support and services. http://www.astaro.com


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


Tracy Wemett, eIQnetworks
+1 617 868 5031
tracy@broadpr.com