UTM is a security appliance that offers a complete threat management system
THE TASK OF safeguarding information is becoming a more complex challenge for besieged companies constantly under threat of cyber attack.
A growing number of products have been designed to tackle the problem, and one that offers a comprehensive solution is unified threat management (UTM).
UTM is an all-in-one security appliance consisting of multiple security products.
A typical UTM often includes anti-virus, intrusion prevention system, content filtering, spam filtering and firewall.
Although the idea of several security products in one hardware appliance is not new, particularly for firewall/virtual private network (VPN) appliances, UTM is one of the first that protects the network from the basic layer-two traffic to the layer-seven application traffic through just one box.
