The availability of its newest product line, Astaro Mail Gateway, as a high performance, low cost alternative to traditional market leaders has been announced today by Astaro Corporation (http://www.astaro.com ). The Astaro Mail Gateway, featuring email encryption, spam and virus protection and remote exchange access, gives small- to medium-sized businesses comprehensive, easy-to-manage mail security. Astaro, in order to drive market awareness, is introducing the product at 50 percent off through the Better than Barracuda Promotion.

Astaro, currently the only security vendor that provides email encryption free with its mail gateway solution, has remained at the forefront of adding new functionality to its security appliances. Eliminating the need for employee action, Astaro's email encryption runs transparently at the gateway. Removing individual employees from the encryption process significantly lowers the possibility that confidential data may accidentally be sent in plaintext across the Internet. Astaro's encryption, based on recognized standards, such as S/MIME, OpenPGP, and TLS, also allows for scanning of encrypted emails for malware.

Astaro goes a step further by integrating patented, reputation-based filtering to significantly enhance spam detection while minimizing the misclassification of legitimate emails as spam, while most mail security solutions offer traditional anti-spam technologies. Astaro, in addition to superior spam recognition, is one of the only solutions that also provides two parallel virus scanners in its mail gateway, blocking traffic in SMTP and POP3 emails. The two scanners receive virus pattern updates independently of each other, reducing reaction time in the event of a new malware outbreak. The solution also provides protection against phishing attacks.