Watchguard and Unified Threat Management: A Technical Perspective

Overview

The evolution of traditional network security practices into comprehensive Unified Threat Management solutions brings with it a level of protection never before available to corporate networks. Unified Threat Management is the name for an emerging trend in the appliance security market. Unified Threat Management appliances have evolved traditional firewall and VPN appliances into a solution that has many additional capabilities, such as URL filtering, spam blocking, spyware protection, intrusion prevention, and gateway antivirus, as well as centralized management, monitoring, and logging capabilities - all functions previously handled by multiple systems.