Saturday, 25 August 2012

2 What is a UTM? | Kunal Goel

In the previous post we discussed about a YouTube trick to look inside a Private video. You can read it here. In this post we take a look at a technology which is increasingly being adopted by firms for their security needs.



Unified Threat Management (UTM) is a term used to describe a comprehensive security product which includes protection against multiple threats. It can be thought of as an all in one solution to an organization's security needs. A UTM system integrates a range of security features in a single appliance like
  • Firewall
  • Antivirus Software
  • Anti-Spyware
  • VPN
  • Spam Filtering
  • Content Filtering
  • Intrusion Detection & Prevention
The term was first used by IDC, a provider of market data, analytics and related services.


Advantages of UTM:

The main advantages of a UTM system are
  • Reduced Complexity
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Single hardware platform &
  • Unified Management Interface
Some major providers of UTM products are Juniper, Cyberoam, Cisco, WatchGuard and many more...

    2 comments:

    Alex said...

    Very informative..thanx for explaining in such a short and crisp manner.. :)

    Unknown said...

    thank you.. :)

     

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