Not only does this enable application based decisions to be made but UTM also opens up the webfiltering, intrusion protection, data loss prevention, and ssl intercept cans of worms. This is an incredible power that gives true granularity to what is about to cross your network. FortiGate’s enable administrators to block skype, or allow it only for specific machines. This enables the administrator to make decisions on whether to allow or deny the traffic based on this new information.

They just see the computers initiating the traffic, the destinations they are going, and the ports and services being used.įortinet UTM Features give users the ability to see the applications that are crossing the network. They don’t see that dropbox is being used or that skype is running over the pipe. Most firewalls are simple source / destination / port based firewalls. One of the main things a lot of firewall and router based hardware is missing in this day and age is the ability to see the applications that are traversing the networking and making decisions based on this information. Fortinet offers a very robust UTM (Unified Threat Management) feature set that makes Fortinet based hardware extremely powerful.

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