The Essential Guide to Unified Threat Management

Doing more with less seems all too common these days. Sometimes it means cutting corners, while other times it leads to consolidation and focus, which can lead to better efficiency. In the security space, a new acronym perfectly describes doing more with less: UTM, or Unified Threat Management. When done correctly UTM provides smaller companies security and protection features once available only to enterprises. However, by its very nature, UTM may not provide as robust a solution as multiple niche security solutions. In this Essential Guide, we’ll overview UTM and describe its benefits—as well as some of the gotchas you should watch for. The security industry is going in a great direction with UTM, but UTM is not the best solution for every situation.