Although stateful packet inspection is a fully mature and stable concept in network security, the firewall market itself is not at all static. The steady evolution toward unified threat management (UTM) is producing products with increasingly broad feature sets, a trend which was very much in evidence in this test. Although still ostensibly network edge firewalls, most of these products included VPN, anti-virus, anti-spam, content filtering, intrusion detection and more.
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