There is lot of ambiguity surrounding the term UTM, what exactly is UTM?
UTM refers to all-in-one devices that consolidate multiple security systems into one appliance for complete attack protection against the entire threat matrix. The development of UTM is a major firewall inflection trend based on the need for stronger perimeter security solutions because attacks have become much more sophisticated. Application-level defenses, and the ability to prevent known and unknown attacks for a unified threat management approach, become more critical daily. Most of the security vendors today offer segregated solutions, where different vendors offer specific security solutions. An integrated solution, which eliminates all these bottlenecks is the need of the hour. Security threats have been through virus, hacker attacks and IP spoofing. Today, these are more blended. The hacker uses a virus to enter an enterprise network, Spam is one of the biggest irritants being extensively used. It besides chocking your network is also being extensively employed to extract corpo