Astaro Security Gateway voted WindowSecurity.com Reader’s Choice Award Winner – First Runner-Up

The leading Windows Security resource site bases its award solely on visitor’s votes.

October 14, 2009 (Wilmington, MA) – Astaro Corporation (http://www.astaro.com), a leading network security vendor, today announced that it was selected as the first runner-up in the Software-based Firewall category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards. WindowSecurity.com is the leading Windows Security resource site and bases its award solely on visitor’s votes.

"Our Readers’ Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category," said Sean Buttigieg, WindowSecurity.com manager. "WindowSecurity.com users are specialists in their field who encounter various network security solutions at the workplace. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry."

WindowSecurity.com conducts monthly polls to discover which product is preferred by Network Security administrators in a particular category of third party network security solutions. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes. WindowSecurity.com visitors can submit their votes for the current Readers' Award poll in the site’s left-hand bar.

"We are excited to be recognized by the readers of WindowSecurity.com", says Jan Hichert, CEO at Astaro. "Since we started in 2000, it has been our goal to offer our users exactly what they need – that is why we do extensive beta testing and why we started our Feature Request Site. We are proud that our users voted us to receive this award."

The Astaro Security Gateway integrates complete Network, Web and Mail Security under an intuitive browser-based user interface and is the most easy-to-use and cost-effective "all-in-one" solution on the market. It is available as hardware, software and virtual appliance and can easily be adapted to changes in environment and requirements by adding different security subscriptions – therefore it brings maximum flexibility.
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