Unified Threat Management Vendors Don't Excel

摘要

We asked IT professionals who've used or evaluated unified threat management products to tell us about their performance and features in our latest vendor evaluation survey. The upshot? Few are enthusiastic about the performance of these appliances. UTM appliances incorporate a dedicated firewall, a URL filter, a standalone network malware-detection system and more into one device. Users just need the appliances to be good enough, while they get cost savings from not having to buy multiple threat management tools. Our 183 survey respondents rated five UTM vendors - Check Point Software, Cisco Systems, Dell SonicWall, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks - on overall performance, which included reliability and acquisition costs, and on specific features.