Firewall and UTM

[yasir shaikh]

What is Difference between firewall and  UTM appliance

[Dinesh Moudgil]

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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[Aditya Ganjoo]

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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[anilkumar.cisco]

Good stuff