What is Unified Threat Management?
Historically, organizations have attempted to address the risk of viruses, worms, Trojans and hackers by continuously implementing additional point products to fill in the associated gaps in their defences. However, they have also come to realize that such a strategy is not sustainable. It invariably results in high capital costs, runaway operating expenses, and, despite their best efforts, is still not very effective due to the holes that inevitably appear at the seams of this type of patchwork solution.
The goal with Unified Threat Management (UTM) is to simplify an organisation’s overall security solution. Fundamentally, this is accomplished by combining multiple functional and logical security capabilities in a single physical device.
How do we achieve this?
Fortinet’s FortiGate range of appliances combine the roles of the Firewall, VPN concentrator, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Antivirus, Web Filtering & Antispam into one appliance. Mid range appliances also include WAN Optimisation and SSL traffic Inspection, Data Leakage Prevention and Application Control.
Fortinet appliances are the most certified UTM on the market today and lead other vendors in Gartner’s magic quadrant.
What are the benefits?
The following are just some of the benefits of consolidating security solutions onto a FortiGate appliance: -
- Greater security - increased protection from more sophisticated multi-vector attacks
- Improved productivity by providing unified, centralized management
- Multi-gigabit speed throughput for antivirus gateways, IPS, VPN and firewalls
- Reduced CapEx due to procurement of fewer, or even one, system
- Reduced OpEx due to single vendor skill set
- Reduced OpEx due to single appliance licencing
- Reduced OpEx due to ZERO client access licencing
- Vast reduction in power, cooling providing a far smaller carbon footprint
What are the next steps?
To book a presentation, webinar or demonstration, or to find out how Fortinet’s products can enhance your organisation while driving down costs, please contact us on the below. We will also perform an initial cost saving analysis to see by how much you could reduce your TCO by consolidating your security & remote access.
To book a session, either call us on +44 (0)800 6444 550 or contact us and we will be more than happy to assist.
UTM - Improve Security. Improve Speed. Reduce TCO.