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Unified Management of Network

Networks are getting complex with every passing year and today enterprises are finding it difficult to get a clear view on how the network is performing when there are so many devices deployed from multiple vendors. Each device is coming with its own management platform, thus creating nightmare for system and network engineer. In order to overcome this hurdle, a comprehensive unified network management platform is required for the management of ...
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Part 2: Understanding difference between Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

In our last blog we tried to understand difference between UTM and NGFW and learnt that it is the business use case which is important and deciding factor for the purchase of the solution. In this article let us take a deep dive and explore more about these products. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) According to recent survey conducted by large IT analyst firm, the top business and technology objective of Enterprises is to decrease cost of ...
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Part 1: Understanding difference between Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

Let us first understand definitions generally adopted by industry to differentiate both the terminologies – as per Gartner, Unified threat management (UTM) is a converged platform of point security products, particularly suited to small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Typical feature sets fall into three main subsets - firewall/intrusion prevention system (IPS)/virtual private network, secure Web gateway security (URL filtering, Web antivirus ) ...
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