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

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.


www.networkingland.com/utm_vendors.htm


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.


www.networkingland.com/utm_shopping.htm


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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