The Dirty Secret of SMB Security and why security shouldn’t be this hard.

WatchGuard Australia & New Zealand’s Regional Director Pat Devlin was recently featured in NETT Magazine in an article titled “The dirty secret of SMB security”. It covers a sensitive subject surrounding Australian SMBs and their current knowledge and approach to security with most of them lacking effective systems to help deal with a wide range of vulnerabilities including things like data loss, web filtering, cyber attacks as well as virus and spam protection.

Pat also takes the opportunity to discuss WatchGuard’s UTM (Unified Threat Management) appliances, a packaged system that brings all the things that you need for complete security into a single, easy to manage device.


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, including:

1. Spam blocking
2. Gateway antivirus
3. Spyware prevention
4. Intrusion prevention
5. 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. All of our WatchGuard® XTM security appliances combine these capabilities for a superior UTM solution.

Fully Integrated Security for Comprehensive Protection

By adding security subscriptions to your WatchGuard XTM or Firebox X e-Series appliance, you turn it into a comprehensive, all-in-one network security solution. These fully integrated security capabilities give the network in-depth defenses, while you slash the time and cost associated with managing multiple single-point security products. Your IT staff has more time to focus on other areas of network administration, and your business saves money on support and hardware costs.

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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:

1. Manage multiple appliances from a central location
2. Easily create and implement coherent global security policies
3. Rely on interactive real-time monitoring and logging
4. Use just one intuitive interface to install and manage all security capabilities

WatchGuard UTM Solutions at Work

You can rely on us for the comprehensive network protection you need to stay safe for your enterprise. Affordable, easy-to-manage network security is our game. From the enterprise to the small branch office, we’ve got solutions that deliver security, performance, and rock-solid reliability. Learn from us why Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) are essential for your big business networks.

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