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The trade-offs of unified threat management

DATE: 26 Oct 2009


It certainly is less expensive to call up your UTM firewall vendor and add an IPS or AV subscription rather than buy an IPS or an AV box. Yes, unified threat management products provide simplified management from a single point, but there is one particular UTM trade-off that you may not be aware of. Opus One's Joel Snyder explains the drawback.

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  • Demo: Watch expert David Strom as he configures a UTM device.
  • Joel Snyder of Opus One talks about how unified threat management stacks up against an intrusion prevention system.
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