A UTM system is a broad‐based network security platform that represents the next stage of evolution for traditional firewalls.
Within a UTM, a variety of hardware and software elements are used to protect your network, including firewalls, IPSs, application control, web filtering, antimalware, and antispam software.
A UTM is administered from a single interface as a collective system, saving network administrators and engineers from installing, configuring, and maintaining multiple security devices, and from trying to make dissimilar platforms all work in unison to protect their network infrastructure. Because all protective functionality resides within one device and management interface, all its protective methods are integrated and better able to provide full coverage.