Wilmington, MA – Astaro Corporation (http://www.astaro.com), a leading Unified Threat Management provider, announced today that Astaro has been recognized with SC Magazine’s 2010 Excellence Award as the company with the Best SME Security Solution category. The award, recognizing Astaro’s outstanding achievement in IT and their outstanding security products, was made last week at the SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco.

“Astaro recognizes that small and medium sized businesses are going to be a major driver of the economic turnaround in the coming year,” said David Rogers, Vice President Americas, Astaro Corporation. “Our goal has always been to develop products that solve the security problems of SMEs. Over the past few months we’ve made changes to our strategy to better meet the needs of these organizations. This recognition validates the work we have done in the past to provide SMEs with enterprise-class security and our focus for the future.”

Astaro and other 2010 Excellence Awards winners were chosen by an expert panel of leading security officers from large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets – representing the wide distribution of SC Magazine readers and breadth of knowledge and experience in the information security industry.

“With the Excellence Award, our judges have recognized Astaro as a leader in the constant battle to protect businesses, customers and data,” said Illena Armstrong, editor-in-chief, SC Magazine. “Astaro is at the forefront of helping companies meet the evolving security challenges of today.”

As the industry’s preeminent awards program, the annual SC Awards has recognized security’s key contributors and outstanding products for more than a decade. For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit www.scmagazineus.com/awards.

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