Unified Threat Management System

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What is UTM and how does it work? Protecting
their IT network has always posed to be a
challenge for small and large companies alike.
With the hackers keeping a close watch to find
one loose end to break into the companys
network is becoming a major reason for concern
among the businesses. The looming threat of the
competitors trying to steal their clients is
increasing day by day. To keep the hackers at
bay, a comprehensive threat management solution
to protect the businesses is required. And the
Unified Threat Management (UTM) system proposes
to be the perfect solution for an overall IT
network protection.
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What are Unified Threat Management systems? In a
nutshell, the UTM could be a hardware device,
virtual device or a cloud application to provide
a foolproof network protection against security
threats. What makes it impenetrable is the fact
that all the trusted and proven security
services are integrated into one, which makes it
invincible. Ideally, the UTMs were developed to
make up for the drawbacks of the traditional
firewalls. Though the next generation firewalls
(NGFW) are more in line with the UTMs, the
latter exceed in terms of providing the security
features offered by the NGFW.
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• Security Features of UTM
• The Unified Threat Management systems, in
  general, is a combination of the following
  security applications to provide exhaustive
  network protection.
• Anti-spam services The anti-spam software
  basically does a good job at preventing the
  security threats entering into the organization
  through Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
  email traffic. The anti-spam filters essentially
  create a whitelist and blacklist of the email
  addresses after comparing them with the
  third-party servers block list.
• UTM Devices These devices are used to control
  the usage of the applications by developing a
  filter as to which applications to be used or
  restricted. This step is important as many
  threats creep into the organization through the
  apps which can compromise the security.
• Firewalls These are the time-tested and
  traditional way to control the network traffic
  from entering and leaving the organization. The
  firewalls basically exercise a control on the
  connection between the host inside and outside
  the organization. This step helps in eliminating
  the unwarranted exposure to the external
  networks.

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• Intrusion detection This technology helps the
  organizations by identifying and detecting the
  threats when a hacker is trying to break into
  the network.
• Virtual Private Network (VPN) The functionality
  of the VPN devices is to protect the unwanted
  eavesdropping and data theft. The VPN
  essentially forms a secure channel through which
  the data can pass without being compromised. The
  VPN can be configured in such a way that even
  the mobile network flows through the UTM device
  to be able to detect and address any security
  incidents compromising the devices.

Being in the nascent stage, the UTM menu can have
inclusions or exclusions of certain security
services, however, listed above are the common
features provided by the Unified Threat
Management Systems. Contact Techno Edge Systems
at 971-50-8740112 or visit our website
http//www.itamcsupport.aefor more information.