Tweet In today’s distributed computing environment, it is becoming increasingly important to control security at remote locations from the centre. Companies such as WatchGuard are now providing unified threat management (UTM) solutions with strong centralised control. The problems when centralised control is not strong include – difficulty implementing...

Tweet UTMs used to be the domain of smaller companies, but Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of security specialist Wick Hill Group, explains why UTMs are now a serious contender for providing firewall protection, and a whole lot more, for enterprises and larger companies.Unified threat management systems (UTMs) have been growing in popularity for the last few years....

Tweet Originally coined in 2003 by IDC analyst, Charles Kolodgy, the term unified threat management (UTM) represented a ground-breaking concept in having disparate security functions – firewall, intrusion detection/intrusion prevention (IDS/IDP) and gateway anti-virus (AV) – reside in a single, integrated network security appliance.WatchGuard Technologies, a...