topic Firewall and UTM in Network Security

Firewall and UTM

yasir shaikh — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:30:54 GMT

What is Difference between firewall and UTM appliance

Yasir,

Dinesh Moudgil — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 08:00:56 GMT

Yasir,

UTM is nothing but extended version of Firewall and incorporates a lot of additional features.
UTM provides you basic features like firewall, VPN, antivirus and intrusion detection/prevention along with various features like URL filtering, spam blocking and spyware protection.

Here are few docs for your reference:-

https://blogs.sophos.com/2014/01/28/utm-and-next-gen-firewalls-whats-the-difference-infographic/

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/answer/UTM-vs-NGFW-Comparing-unified-threat-management-next-gen-firewalls

http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0617.html

Regards,
Dinesh Moudgil

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Hi Yasir,

Aditya Ganjoo — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:58:27 GMT

Hi Yasir,

UTM is an appliance for combining firewall, gateway anti-virus, and intrusion detection andprevention capabilities into a single platform.

If you need a dedicated device that can do the following things we can opt for UTM's:

Security beyond simple stateful inspection
Single-pass, stream-based deep packet inspection (DPI)
Unlimited scanning of concurrent traffic traversing the network
Inspection and identification of multiple application types and protocols
Visibility into hidden applications and vulnerabilities
Malware and intrusion prevention
Protection against internal and external attacks

Firewall in itself is a broad term as they are multiple classifications of a FW like stateless,stateful,

application level,proxy firewalls etc. So UTM's can be considered as a device that can provide all these features.

Hope it answers your query.

Regards,

Aditya

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Re: Firewall and UTM

anilkumar.cisco — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:55:22 GMT

Good stuff