By Kurt Seifried (kurt@seifried.org)

One of the latest trends in information security is Unified Threat Management (UTM), in fact Information Security magazine (June 2006) ran a story on this topic. In a nutshell UTM is the combining of security functionality (i.e. anti-virus and network traffic scanning, alerting, firewalling, etc.) into a single appliance or software suite. The article in Information Security magazine covers five in favor of UTM but fails to consider any of the risks.

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