If you believe everything you read, enterprise unified threat management (UTM) products and appliances are the silver bullet for information security. These all-in-one boxes claim to offer a panacea for any enterprise’s security ailments, with functions including network perimeter protection, content filtering, malware protection and more. However, I’ve never met a security professional who believes everything he or she reads! In reality, UTM provides decent network security for small and midsized businesses, but probably has no place in the enterprise.

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Published in SearchSecurity on 05/18/09