Better Security with Unified Threat Management Appliances

Network security attacks are now days much hyped about and profiled in the news. News of some company or website being compromised has become a daily occurrence. Compromises like this can cause loss of data and sensitive information falling into the hands of unscrupulous elements

Along with this hype is also the introduction of new software’s and appliances to combat the growing menace of threats on the internet. Content filtering software, Spam filtering software for email clients, antivirus with firewalls, and intrusion detection systems are the many aspects of prevention and removal software. Network security management is becoming a more complex task and deploying many of these software’s and appliances are necessary to make the network secure.

Network security solutions offer a high level of security but often are not implemented properly due to the variety of software’s and appliances that is necessary to configure and implement. Due to this fact the network security systems of most companies are not fully secured against all kinds of attacks and mal ware.

Threat Management Security Appliances

An appliance that offers the security as a combination of software, hardware and networking is the basics of a threat management appliance. A few conditions that make it a threat management appliance are

• Hardened Operating system
• Limited Application set
• No user software installation
• Performs multiple security features. (firewalling, IDS, Gateway antivirus)

Other features are

• Security Management
• Policy Management
• Quality of Service
• Load balancing
• High Availability
• Bandwidth Management

Many threat management devices try to incorporate all the entire threat management applications into one entity and make a Unified Threat Management device. Unified threat management is soon becoming the answer to security problems. The leaders in this market so far are ‘Secure computing corporation’, Symantec, Fortinet, and LokTek

Need for Unified Threat Management appliances

Virus detection, encryption and patch management to an extent have been able to protect corporate information within networks from hackers and criminals. Any weak link in security could compromise the information of the corporate. Security management therefore needed to implement multiple security features like fire walling, anti-virus, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, Content control and filtering.

• Cost of each security feature has to be considered
• Effectiveness of each security feature needs to be considered.
• Attacks are now ever increasing and usually target multiple aspects of the system such that most of the security features have some work to do in case of a single attack.

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