What Is a Unified Threat Management Solution?
Unified Threat Management (UTM) is an emerging trend in the network security market. UTM appliances have evolved from traditional firewall/VPN products into a solution with many additional capabilities, such as:

• Spam blocking
• Gateway antivirus
• Spyware prevention
• Intrusion prevention
• URL filtering

These are functions that previously had been handled by multiple systems. UTM solutions also provide integrated management, monitoring, and logging capabilities to streamline deployment and maintenance.

Built-in Zero Day Protection Is the Foundation
We start with powerful security. The Intelligent Layered Security (ILS) in the Firebox X offers true Zero Day protection right out of the box. It protects against new and unknown threats before the vulnerability is discovered and the exploit is created and launched. Many vendors only provide signature-based protection. These reactive solutions actually leave their customers exposed to new types of threats until they have a signature update to deploy, often many hours or days after the exploit becomes known.

Layers of Powerful Defenses Working Together
The security layers of the ILS architecture work together to strengthen overall security. Cooperative communication between layers reduces and fine tunes the processing required by the security functions. The result - you get the protection you need to stay safe while optimizing performance.

Powerful Security Services to Boost Your Defenses
Our flexible solutions allow you to easily add any of our advanced security services to enhance protection in critical attack areas. Services include:

• spamBlocker The best service in the industry at distinguishing legitimate communications from spam attacks in real time, blocking up to 97% of unwanted e-mails, with very few false positives.
• Gateway AV/Intrusion Prevention Service with anti-spyware Robust, signature-based protection at the gateway against known viruses, spyware, trojans, and Web-based exploits.
• WebBlocker Increase productivity and decrease security risks by blocking access to malicious Web content and managing your users' Web surfing.

The Role of Integrated Management
Whether you are an IT expert or a security novice, you'll find the integrated management, interactive real-time monitoring, and logging capabilities of our UTM solutions provide indispensable ease of use when configuring and managing your security. With WatchGuard System Manager, you can:

• Manage multiple appliances from a central location
• Easily create and implement coherent global security policies
• Rely on interactive real-time monitoring and logging
• Use just one intuitive interface to install and manage all your security features, including advanced security services

WatchGuard UTM Solutions at Work