Network Security

Unified Threat Management

External and internal threats are taking a blended form and targeting the internal user with short targeted attacks in their drive for financial gain. Firewalls and anti-virus alone are not enough to provide comprehensive security to organizations. Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances are all-in-one security appliances which carry firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-spam, intrusion detection and prevention, content filtering as basic features. UTM solutions like Cyberoam offer complete protection while remaining easy to manage and with low capital and operating expenses.

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Network Security continues to be a key issue for organizations across all verticals. External Threats like viruses, Trojans, spyware, malware, phishing, worms and much more are targeting the individual user, extracting corporate and personal confidential information or turning their devices into parts of massive botnets to further aggravate the problem. In addition, Internal Users are compromising enterprise security out of ignorance or malicious intent and pose the single largest threat to enterprise security.

Are Point Security Solutions Enough? Individual security solutions, while dealing with different aspects of threats, do not give adequate and rapid response. As part of a traditional security arrangement, basic Firewalls and Anti-virus systems alone are no longer suffiicient in providing comprehensive security to organizations. Viruses like Mydoom, Melissa and ILOVE YOU caused havoc on enterprises resulting in significant data loss. These viruses were so powerful that they forced Microsoft and a number of other very large companies to completely turn off their e-mail systems until the virus could be controlled.

Unified Threat Management A Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution provides comprehensive protection to enterprises with tightly integrated multiple security features working together on a single appliance. UTMs are all-in-one security appliances which carry firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention, content filtering as basic features. Some carry bandwidth management and manage security over multiple ISP links too.

A single UTM appliance makes it easier to manage an enterprise’s security strategy with just one device to manage, one source of support and one way to set up and maintain every aspect of its security architecture. A UTM solution is also very cost-effective and offers a centralized console that enables monitoring of network security at remote locations.

UTM systems must at minimum:

Be an appliance.
Include multiple security features.
Have a hardened OS.

What UTMs Deliver

The main advantages of a UTM are simplicity, streamlined installation and user-friendly features, and the ability to concurrently update all the security functions or programs in one interface. As the nature and diversity of Internet threats evolves and becomes more threatening, UTM products can be customized to update with the situation.

Cyberoam provides the most comprehensive, zero-hour protection that is cost-effective and easy-to-manage to enterprises with its highly integrated solutions like the Stateful Inspection firewall, VPN, Gateway Anti-virus and Anti-spyware, Gateway Anti-Spam, Intrusion Prevention System and Content Filtering. Cyberoam UTMs offer secure, encrypted tunnels for secure remote access for the mobile workforce to the central network in enterprises.

UTM Solutions rise in Popularity
Even as excellent software-based or point security solutions are available in the market, UTMs have turned into the fastest growing markets in the security industry. The reasons are simple.

Small and Midsize enterprises need comprehensive security at affordable cost. Further, in deploying a single, comprehensive appliance, they require limited technical resources to manage it. UTMs emerged to meet this primary requirement.

Increasingly, enterprises are deploying UTMs as an alternative to firewalls and other point solutions. Cost savings, easier management and green credentials are just a few of the issues which make them attractive. Today, with higher processing power, Cyberoam’s multicore processor powered UTM appliances deliver high throughputs, thereby meeting the high performance demands of enterprises. At the same time, they offer effective branch office security at the same levels that the head offices work with.

Growth of the UTM appliance market is largely due to the following factors:

Reduced Complexity: The all-in-one approach simplifies product selection, product integration, and ongoing support.
Easy-to-use and Deploy: These unified systems are really easy to use and deploy. They don’t need technical expertise and IT specialists to troubleshoot and small business owners without any background in IT can use it with ease.
Meets Regulatory Compliances: More and more UTM providers are becoming compliant with statutory/regulatory requirements.
Low Investment: By providing the comprehensive range of security features in a single appliance, UTM solutions like Cyberoam involve low capital expense and operating expense.

User Identity in UTMs Organizations, regardless of size, are increasingly realizing that their networks are vulnerable to both internal and external threats. Yet, their existing security architecture won’t accommodate the desired levels of user visibility and control. There is also increasing regulatory pressure to secure sensitive data from blended attacks that target a vulnerable user or IP address in order to gain control of a client machine and access the corporate data or for perpetuating an attack. Such granular levels of flexible security are nowadays on customers’ minds which makes identity-based, application-level controls, the latest requirement in managing network security of organizations.

Cyberoam is the only Identity-based Unified Threat Management solution that offers comprehensive network security with fine granularity through its unique user-identity based policies. It stamps User Identity, letting the organization know ‘Who is Doing What’. This ensures highly granular controls and unified policy management through a single window. It allows users to carry their access rights anywhere in the network, ensures business flexibility based on work profile and gives user visibility and control even in DHCP and Wi-Fi Environments.

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