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What is the difference between standard firewall and UTM?

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Question added by Ahmed Elkhidir , Cyber Security consultant , ARO Drilling
Date Posted: 2016/04/15
Digvijay Chavda
by Digvijay Chavda , Sr. Engineer IT-operation , Panamax InfoTech Ltd

Standard Firewalls having some limites Features of Network Security and now Unified Threat Managament is bundle of all security package like Antispam , Antivirus etc. 

Gaurav Malik
by Gaurav Malik , Network Security Analyst , HCL Technologies

Standard firewalls controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on certain set of rules mostly depended upon IP address and Ports.

 

Whereas UTM is more comprehensive network security solution as standard firewall/Next generation firewalls are only a part of UTM security suite. UTM can be configured to act as Email Security (Email Scanners), URL filtering (web proxy), Wireless Security, Web application firewall (NGFW with application intelligence) and virtual private networks (VPNs). So much information feed of network flow into a single device further enables its events co-relation engine to provide with more conclusive and accurate security logs.

Mohammed Abdul Aziz Mohammed Abdul Khadir
by Mohammed Abdul Aziz Mohammed Abdul Khadir , Information Technology System Administrator , Rolaco Holding Group

Standard Firewall is with Limited features (network, Email etc) with different Modules.

 

UTM comes Full Bundle solutions ( Email, network, Application control, Web control etc).

Tristan Gillego
by Tristan Gillego , Senior Unix/Linux Systems Engineer , The Group Securities

Basic firewall is just a component of UTM. It can be interchaged if you are comparing next generation firewall vs UTM. 

Basant Mohamed Hesham
by Basant Mohamed Hesham , Deputy Manager IT Recruitment and Outsourcing , MigrationIT

UTM can be firewall, web filter , email gateway

ibrahim yousif
by ibrahim yousif , Network Admin & Field Service Engineer , TEA computers

firewall allows or deneys traffic from IP to IP address on specific port; mainly works at the network layer

 

UTM consists of a firewall and other features expands to the application layer

web security (denying porno sites and/or social media)

Mail security (detecting spam and viruses in attachments)

IDS/IPS Intrusion Detection/Prevention system

 

next generation firewalls as UTMs but looks deeper into traffic to metigate attacks as Advanced Persistant threats APTs, much higher  throughput rates due to dedicated ASICS

 

ADEL ABOUZOHRI
by ADEL ABOUZOHRI , Head of Information Management , Qatar Biomedical Research Institutes QBRI member of Qatar Foundation

Firewalls basically work on an applied set of rules. It matches all incoming and outgoing data packets with the ones in the database in order to figure out whether they are harmful or not.

Unified Threat Management Appliance is a much more powerful security tool as compared to a standard firewall.It needs to be connected to the main network and works in order to provide maximum security against all incoming malware. also it has different feature such as DLP , LB , Mail gateway ,IPS,  and so on 

Usama Alam
by Usama Alam , Technical Consultant , Premier Star Technology

UTM have bundle of solutions available like : 

1. Mail Security (Mail Gateway)

2. Antivirus scanning

3. Web Protection

4. VPNs

 

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