With Astaro Security Gateway Web Filtering, network administrators gain a simple and effective way to:

• Inspect all web, instant messaging, and peer-to-peer traffic. Perform fast, accurate filtering using Astaro’s patent-pending content inspection framework.
• Stop viruses and spyware. Achieve unmatched detection rates for known and unknown malware through two scan engines combined in a single product.
• Filter web access. Grant web access through user and time settings. Set policies based on sixty easy-to-navigate categories, containing over twenty million sites. Daily updates of newly discovered websites maximize coverage.

Technical Specifications

• High performance HTTP and FTP gateways
• Time, user and user group based filtering
• Authentication via Active Directory, eDirectory, Radius, Tacacs+, LDAP or Local
• Single sign on for Active Directory and eDirectory
• Two independent Anti-virus engines with 300,000+ patterns plus zero-day heuristics
• Scanning of HTTP, FTP and webmail traffic
• Prevents infection and hidden communication through Spyware
• URL Filtering of 20+ million websites in 60 categories
• Filtering of active content such as Java, Active X, Flash, Cookies, VBScript or JavaScript
• Web proxy cache for bandwidth savings