Astaro Announces Security Reporting Tool

Enterprise Networks & Servers, Nov 2004

Astaro has announced Astaro Report Manager, a security data collection and reporting tool that helps system administrators respond rapidly to attacks, measure network and threat activity, tune defenses, and produce detailed reports for management and auditing purposes.

Astaro Report Manager captures complete log data about network and Web usage, attacks, intrusions and viruses from Astaro security Linux and other network security products. It produces a variety of tables, charts and graphs. Administrators can view the status of networking activity "at-a-glance" from a dashboard, track security threats and network trends with hundreds of standard reports, and drill down on key data by creating custom reports.

Data can be viewed, printed and emailed in a variety of formats, including HTML, Microsoft Word and Excel, and pdf.

"Astaro security Linux already offers the most comprehensive integrated perimeter security solution on the market," said Jan Hichert, CEO of Astaro. "With Astaro Report Manager, we allow IT managers to improve the management of their security infrastructure.

"This is the second major addition to Astaro's line of management products," continued Hichert. "Astaro Configuration Manager, introduced in 2003, allows administrators to define and distribute security policies quickly and accurately to multiple Astaro security Linux installations. Astaro security Linux is already extremely easy to deploy and manage. We intend to strengthen our lead in this area by enhancing and expanding our line of related management products."

The software can collect and report on data from a variety of other vendor firewalls and security devices, including those from Cisco, Check Point, Fortinet, McAfee, Nokia, Juniper Networks/NctScrcen, SonicWALL, Symantec, and WatchGuard.