Testing All-in-one Firewalls
Joel Snyder examines 13 Unified Threat Management (UTM) products for performance, manageability, power consumption and more.
Intro to UTM Testing
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.
- Why test all-in-one firewalls for the enterprise?
- How to test all-in-one firewalls
- The bottom line of our testing: Netresults and Scorecard
- Podcast: What Joel Snyder thinks, but could not actually prove about testing enterprise UTM
Testing categories
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.
- CheckPoint’s UTM Management falters; Cisco, Juniper gain ground
- UTM Performance takes a big hit
- Juniper, Cisco offer top IPS tools with UTM firewalls
- VPN capabilities vary widely across UTM Firewall
- Tracking UTM High Availability
- A closer look at UTM hardware architecture
- UTMs require routing for flexibility’s sake
- Watts up with UTM power consumption
- UTM and IPv6: Do they mix?
- Anti-virus isn’t a good fit for UTM
Product Summaries
These links provide a product-by-product breakdown of the all-in-one firewall wares tested by Lab Alliance member Joel Snyder.
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