That enterprise border still needs protection

摘要

We are approaching a world where the demarcation between our enterprises and the public internet is becoming fuzzier and fuzzier. We allow customers to log into our networks and, through various protective mechanisms, access data deep within our enterprise. Workers access our internal resources through VPNs. However, regardless of how we allow - or don't allow - external access, we still need to protect our borders. That is the theme of this month's two Group Test reviews. The first group is universal threat managers (UTMs). These devices, by definition, must include an IDS/IPS, a firewall and an anti-virus gateway. However, virtually all of the products we saw this month had far more capability than the minimum. Which leads me to the next product group: anti-malware gateways. These devices have the job of identifying and stopping all types of malware at the gateway, no matter how they attempt to enter (e.g., web or email). For this review we focused on malware that enters via the web.