Case Studies

Today, more than 100,000 customers entrust Astaro to provide their network with complete perimeter security.

MAN Group
In the European commercial vehicle industry, Munich-based MAN Group achieves sustainable transport efficiency in local and long-distance traffic. In order to secure the company's data traffic, though, the supplier of engines, buses and trucks searched for a solution fulfilling the demands of modern IT communication.

"We chose Astaro mainly for its all-in-one approach, trouble-free installation and management at an affordable price." - Martin Bělohlávek, systems administrator - MAN ČR

Kansas City Life
Kansas City Life Insurance Company’s security appliances were nearing end of life. They needed a solution to simplify and unify their network. Not only did Astaro fulfill these needs, but the company now also enjoys cost savings and superior customer service.

"I like that there's not another steep learning curve every time you do something new," - Keith Beatty, a senior network engineer - Kansas City Life

Georgia Public Web, Inc.
Georgia Public Web, Inc. decided that their Cisco PIX firewall was just not cutting it. The internet service provider decided to replace their existing solution with an Astaro Security Gateway solution and were immediately bowled over by its effectiveness and ease of use.

"Overall, it uses the best technology has to offer to provide a good balance of capability and administrative ease" - Neil Fusillo, Systems and Security Architect - Georgia Public Web

IV Solothurn
As part of Switzerland's disability insurance system, IV Solothurn is in charge of the government's rehabilitation program for people affected by disability. When it comes to online risks and internet threats, Astaro Security Gateway is poised to provide "insurance protection" against malicious intruders.

"Reliable, secure and simple: From my experience with Astaro, these keywords summarize best the appliance's technical strengths" - Marcel Meier, Head of IT - IV Solothurn

BZG Medical School
The Swiss faculty of medicine strongly relies on Astaro Security Gateway, a robust unified threat management appliance including professional network security via firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention technologies, combined with web and mail security.

"We were looking for a new solution with a high security level leveraging simplified administration and a favorable cost/performance ratio" - Peter Haderer IT coordinator at BZG Medical School

BLG AG
BLG is specialized in logistical services. Every year, a total of 130 employees process approximately 200,000 shipments as road haulage, air cargo and sea freight. This requires a highly complex logistics and transport infrastructure that can only be coordinated via sophisticated computer systems.

"Menu navigation and working processes of the all-in-one product are logical and comprehensible" - Martin Zaugg IT Director at BLG AG

Dynamic Parcel Distribution Denmark
DPD Denmark A/S delivers postal packages throughout the Scandinavian kingdom. As for the secure delivery of electronic packages, Astaro Security Gateway 320 is more than enough.

"With Astaro, this VPN installation also turned out to be a simple process" - Wolfgang Otto Managing Director at next move IT

Underwriters Safety and Claims
As the company began its green IT push, it also had to ensure that another IT issue was addressed: security. Existing Cisco PIX security appliances were nearing the end of their product life cycles and failed to meet new insurance industry challenges.

"Astaro cost about a third of what it would have cost to update and maintain the other devices" - Grant Nickle IT Director at Underwriters Safety and Claims

BHAK/BHAS Eisenstadt
The unified threat management solution Astaro Security Gateway serves the largest vocational school in Austria to provide secure data access, encrypted VPN connectivity and protects PCs against viruses, worms, hackers and illicit web content.

"We have found out in almost every instance that Astaro has always been ahead of it's competition" - Anton Koch Managing Director at JT Computer

Amman University
Amman University recently implemented a highly effective and reliable centralized security solution, shielding more than 1,100 on campus PCs against viruses, worms, hackers and other cyber attacks.

"Just the content filter and the integrated web proxy enabled us to reduce the amount of data by approximately 50%" - Dr. Said, IT Director at Amman University

Kabul University
IT experts from Berlin's Technical University and the German Academic Exchange Service helped to rebuild Kabul University's network infrastructure. Astaro Security Gateway now serves to protect against cyber attacks.

"Astaro Security Gateway has the best price-performance ratio of all solutions on the market" - Dr. Peroz, University Lecturer at TU Berlin

Archdiocese New Orleans
Frustrated with their previous security product from Symantec, the Roman Catholic Church ushered in Astaro's powerful and easy to manage solution.

“We don't use the same level of content filtering for schools that we do for the business offices... Astaro provided us that flexibility.” - Rob Cohoran, Network Administrator at Archdiocese New Orleans

Poet AG
Replacing its Check Point solution with Astaro Security Gateway, POET AG was able to preserve their rule-set at a lower price without neglecting security.

Conclusion: "Astaro’s platform allows high performance and extremely secure authentication and encryption concepts."

Pikes Peak BOCES
Pikes Peak BOCES acts as a service provider, enabling seven rural school districts to connect their LANs to the Internet via a third-party highspeed network.

“Products from Checkpoint and some others proved too expensive for us." - Robert Cox, Technology Consultant at Pikes Peak BOCES

Salem Hospital
Salem Hospital abandons an assortment of firewall products in favor of Astaro's unified threat management solution, reducing costs and complexity in the process.

“We had a freebie firewall called Monowall, but Astaro is more enterprise robust.” - Carl Wharton, Network Systems Engineer at Salem Hospital

Task Force
Task Force required a new security solution with focus placed on high availability with ease of configuration and management.

"I was very impressed... our spam filtering is about 95% efficient – a massive improvement." - George Nursey, IT manager at Task Force

Stanford University
A UTM security appliance keeps intruders from invading the remote workstations of hundreds of researchers at Stanford University's Department of Electrical Engineering.

"The try-before-you-buy capability enabled us to see how well the product fit into our environment." - Joe Little, Principle Systems Architect at Stanford University

Ohio State University
Ohio State was looking for a fully integrated, single platform solution that would be easier filter network traffic from ten separate buildings, to manage, affordable and that would be easier to manage, affordable and could filter network traffic from ten separate buildings.

“We have experienced greater productivity, reduced risk and cost savings, it is working very well for us”. - Tim Smith, Information Systems Director at Ohio State University