GroupTest: UTM

摘要

The UTM is maturing. What I find most interesting is that the fundamental concepts behind UTMs have not changed much since they began to be popular as an economical way to protect the perimeter. What has changed are two important things: their functionality is increasingly tightly coupled and the number of functions is growing significantly. Starting with the second, we saw a lot more functionality - larger feature sets - than in the past. We define a basic UTM as a device that has, at minimum, an IDS/IDP, anti-virus gateway and firewall. Not all of the products that claimed to be UTMs had this basic functionality. Beyond the basics, we saw specialized anti-malware, including anti-phishing and spam protection.