Vendor Landscape: Unified Threat Management

The perimeter firewall grows up and becomes a Swiss Army Knife of protection capabilities.

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XTM 5 Series

Network Security Appliance

FortiGate

NG Firewall

SRX

PA Series

UTM-1

Security Gateway

Firewall Enterprise

ASA 5500 Series

What is a Value Score?

The Value Score indexes each vendor’s product offering and business strength relative to their price point. It does not indicate vendor ranking.

Vendors that score high offer more bang for the buck (e.g. features, usability, stability, etc.) than the average vendor, while the inverse is true for those that score lower.

Price-conscious enterprises may wish to give the Value Score more consideration than those who are more focused on specific vendor/product attributes.

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Vendor

Product

Viability

Vendor is profitable, knowledgeable, and will be around for the long-term.

Strategy

Vendor is committed to the space and has a future product and portfolio roadmap.

Reach

Vendor offers global coverage and is able to sell and provide post-sales support.

Channel

Vendor channel strategy is appropriate and the channels themselves are strong.

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Features

The solution provides basic and advanced feature/functionality.

Usability

The solutions dashboard and reporting tool are intuitive and easy to use.

Affordability

The five year TCO of the solution is economical.

Architecture

The delivery method of the solution aligns with what is expected within the space.

Total

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What matters more, the vendor score or the product score? As you weigh the importance, we will generate the vendor shortlist to match your needs.

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Check Point

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Astaro

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McAfee

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Cisco

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Your shortlist offers more information about vendor's strengths, weaknesses, price-points, etc, and ranks them according to your needs.

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Your Challenge

Every enterprise needs to implement the right security solutions to protect its operations and its data; “Firewalls” are a table-stakes requirement for an enterprise to be secure.
UTM solutions have replaced traditional firewalls and are in danger of themselves being replaced by Next Generation Firewalls; the names change as feature portfolios broaden.
Picking the right solution means appropriate protection at an acceptable cost; picking wrong could mean higher cost, lower security, or both.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

The only traffic that counts anymore is HTTP/S: As all traffic becomes Web traffic, controlling traffic flow by protocol becomes keyed to digging into Port 80 (and 443) traffic.
Inbound no longer the only direction that threats flow: As security focus has shifted from infrastructure to data, protection needs to address outbound flow as much as inbound attacks.
Firewalls can’t protect traffic they can’t see: Encrypted traffic obfuscates threats from Firewalls while WiFi networks allow attacks to bypass them entirely; modern solutions must control these traffic types also.

Impact and Result

Enterprises that plan carefully and select thoughtfully can improve enterprise security while reducing cost and trimming administrative effort with a capable UTM/NGFW; the broader capabilities these tools offer means organizations can get rid of older point solutions that supported the incumbent firewall.

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Evaluate UTM/NGFW solutions
Find the Unified Threat Management/Next Generation Firewall that best meets enterprise needs.
- Vendor Landscape Storyboard: Unified Threat Management
Identify UTM/NGFW criteria that are most important to you
Develop a custom shortlist of the most appropriate UTM/NGFW solutions.
- Unified Threat Management Vendor Shortlist Tool

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