Astaro , a leading security appliances vendor announced the “Raise Your Nokia’s IQ” promotion, allowing owners of Nokia hardware appliances to easily upgrade from Check Point’s security software to Astaro’s full-featured unified threat management (UTM) solution, Astaro Security Gateway (ASG), for free on the last December 23 , 2008. By using Astaro Security Gateway , you will be provided a lot of helpful features for your nokia platform , which are stateful firewall , unlimited VPN and even an Intrusion Protection ! It’s a free firewall for nokia platforms

Excerpt from ThreatChaos’s post about Astaro Security Gateway :

“We have heard from several partners that are concerned with the recently announced acquisition of Nokia by Check Point,” explains Alex Quinonez, VP of Sales at Astaro. “In an economy like we’re seeing today, mergers and acquisitions of large companies can be risky and can jeopardize the vendor’s ability to service its end users. This promotion allows customers on a Nokia platform that are concerned with Check Point’s costs and current state of affairs an easy and inexpensive way to switch to a stable vendor.”

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