Astaro presents Command Center 2.0, center of managing security gateways

Astaro company, a leading manufacturer of network protection facilities, has announced the release of a new version of Astaro Command Center. The new version of the popular management tool provides the opportunity of centralized configuration and maintenance of secure tunnels IPsec VPN, and also can boast of significantly improved performance.
Astaro Command Center is a single command panel, through which IT-specialists will be able to control the work of numerous devices of Astaro Gateways, including Astaro Security Gateway, Astaro Web Gateway and Astaro Mail Gateway. The product displays the information about the current state of several Astaro products in a single control panel, and also helps to solve many additional tasks. For example, to make a schedule of automatic update of software on numerous devices, to monitor the available resources, to obtain information about the used licenses and many others.
Due to the implemented improvements, Astaro Command Center 2.0 version will allow administrators to configure and serve secure IPsec VPN tunnels directly from the command center. Professionals can just choose devices that are necessary for establishing VPN-connection, and follow the clear instructions of the wizard to configure the settings of this connection. Of course, after that the user will be able to make the necessary changes in the settings, disable or eliminate the tunnel. Besides, Astaro Command Center allows enterprises to use the available equipment for providing quality controlled services for data protection to their partners and clients. Clients will be able to connect to a single Command Center server, and system administrators can create individual user accounts, the owners of which will have an access to the functionality of a particular device. Administrators are offered a powerful and extremely easy to master graphics interface WebAdmin (first presented in the release of Astaro Gateway Version 7). The product can be used for controlling of hardware and software versions of Security, Web and Email Gateway, and also of security gateways, represented in the form of virtual devices. The control center of Astaro Command Center is also available in the form of equipment, software or virtual machine. For additional information about Astaro products visit the web-site of Softline company.