“After attacks from the Nimda and Code Red worms back in 2001,
National Background Data (NDB) turned to Astaro Security Linux
(ASL), a multi-faceted Linux-based network appliance. ASL will keep
playing a behind-the-scenes role when the national criminal
background checking service moves its Web front end from Windows
2000 to Linux later in 2003.“‘Actually, two years ago, we were mainly looking for a load
balancing system,’ recalls Randy Lastinger, the Ocala, FL-based
customer’s director of network operations. ‘With ASL, though, we’re
getting an all-in-one solution: load balancing, a firewall VPN,
stateful packet inspection, anti-virus, anti-spam, URL blocking,
and more. As you might imagine, because of what we do, we get lots
of spam.’“NBD runs a Web-based service aimed at helping background
screening companies to quickly find out whether job and housing
applicants have undisclosed criminal convictions…”