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Are there unified threat management (UTM) firewalls with the chops to provide the perimeter security functions that an enterprise needs? After all, enterprises generally employ best-of-breed security products, not the all-in-one devices popular with the small and medium business set. In this test of 13 enterprise UTM products Network World Lab Alliance member Joel Snyder puts these products through their paces in eight categories. Overall, he finds that good enterprise firewalls are plentiful, but adding in UTM features like intrusion prevention and anti-virus scanning will yield very spotty performance. The overall top performers in this test are Juniper, Cisco and Check Point.
These links provide direct access to our underlying reasoning for testing this class of products as well as a detailed methodology on how we tested them. You'll also find here a summary of how each of the 13 products tested faired across the 10 categories assess and get some insight into the things we couldn't actually prove (but still need to be considered) within the confines of this testing project.
Network World Lab Alliance member Joel Snyder assessed each of the 13 UTM products in ten categories. Here is a category by category breakdown of the results.
These links provide a product-by-product breakdown of the all-in-one firewall wares tested by Lab Alliance member Joel Snyder.