what is UTM?

What is UTM?

UTM stands for Unified Threat Management, which is more than 2 years old term in Internet Security, this term was first created by IDC.

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In short:

Gone are the days when a dedicated firewall is sufficient to fend off hackers from corporate networks, Unified Threat Management (UTM) is an emerging trend in the network security appliance market. This evolution

introduces a new all-in-one network security device that provides:

1.Anti-virus 2.Anti-spam 3.Anti-Spyware 4.Content filtering 5.Intrusion detection and prevention. 6.Firewall

You can also find traffic shaping, VPN, Virtual Domain and even web proxy caching in some UTM boxes like ASTARO.

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Now you can get one UTM box like FG-50A from Fortinet at less than $1000 with one year service contract which fits even small budgets.

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In the past these services, traditionally, used to be handled by multiple systems and only large biz can afford to have.

Naim

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