Firewalls are a key security requirement for any enterprise today with increased use of internet for business and personal purposes by internal users. Having a traditional firewall technology like Stateful Inspection Firewalls (e.g. Cisco PIX, Checkpoint FW-1) are no more enough with fast change in landscape of Security threats. Today with rise in so many new threats to a network—including viruses, worms, unwanted applications (e.g., P2P, games, instant messaging), phishing, and application-layer attacks enterprise are looking for multi-faced approach to stop these threats.
These above reasons are compelling an enterprise to adopt integrated and unified approach to network security. They want to unify the management of all of these different security and productivity technologies into one unit. This is where UTM comes in. Unified Threat Management Solutions are designed to provide a range of Security Solution in a single appliance reducing costs and simplifying the whole process of security systems management, reporting and installation.
What is a UTM?
Unified threat management (UTM) is a application layer firewall which has many features in one box, including E-mail Spam Filtering, Anti-Virus capability, Intrusion Prevention System, Web Content Filtering, Virtual Private Network support along with the traditional activities of a firewall.
Enterprises have now started adopting UTMs because they have begun to appreciate the benefits of less expenditure and easier centralized administration. Below listed are some of the advantages of deploying Unified Threat Management Solutions
• Provides multi-security in one box (AV, AS, IPS, FW, CF and VPN) in one box.
• Easy to centrally manage and administer.
• Reduces multipoint points of failure as with point approach.
• Reduced security infrastructure cost and manpower to manage solutions.
• Reduce Network Latency as with point approach.
• Supports Green IT.
Some of the vendors carrying UTM solutions
Fortinet - http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortigate_overview.html
Checkpoint - http://www.checkpoint.com/products/utm/index.html
Juniper - http://www.juniper.net/products_and_services/firewall_slash_ipsec_vpn/index.html
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If you need an all in one solution then I would look at something like unified threat managment also known as a UTM.Cyberoam firewall is the only UTM firewall that embeds user identity in firewall rule matching criteria, enabling enterprises to configure policies and identify users directly by the username rather than through IP addresses. Cyberoam’s powerful hardware firewall provides stateful and deep packet inspection, access control, user authentication, network and application-level protection.
The ICSA-certified Cyberoam firewall is available along with VPN, gateway anti-virus and anti-spyware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering, bandwidth management and multiple link management, providing comprehensive security to small, medium and large enterprises, including remote and branch offices. Cyberoam is a Check Mark Level 5 certified UTM solution.
Key Features
1.Stateful Inspection Firewall
2.Centralized management for multiple security features
3.Embeds user identity in rule-matching criteria
4.Multiple zone security
5.Granular IM, P2P controls
6.ICSA certified
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