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Manager’s guide to unified threat management and next-gen firewalls

Key factors to justify and evaluate UTM and NGFW systems

Published April 2015

Unified threat management (UTM) systems are among the most widely used tools in the information security arsenal. The concept of unified threat management is very appealing: multiple critical security technologies, integrated on a single platform, provided by a single vendor.

But the process of evaluating UTM options is not simple. You may wonder: Is a UTM solution right for my organisation? What security features are most important? What other issues need to be considered, such as ease of management and support for remote users?