1 Introduction
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1 Introduction
The internet is an ubiquitous information and communication medium in our time. Often
the computer or the network is permanent connected to the internet, because a lot of
businesses are executed online.
It is mostly disregarded that the internet must be seen as a security risk. This is especial-
ly critical, if confidential data are stored on the systems. The security of these data can-
not be guaranteed. The information could be spied out or may be irrevocable lost by a
computer virus.
Software firewalls, which are installed on the computer,
don’t meet requirements, be-
cause the dangerous programs are already in the net.
A system is demanded, which is positioned between the internet and the local network,
to guard the network against destructive programs and to control the communication with
the internet.
The Securepoint Unified Threat Management (UTM) offers a complete solution with
comprehensive safety measures in respect of network-, web- and e-mail security. The
appliance offers firewall-, IDS- and VPN-functionality, proxies, automatic virus scanning,
web content- and spam-filtering, clustering, high availability und multipath routing func-
tionality. It provides several authentication methods and encrypted access to the net-
work.
The combination of these functions in one system minimizes the administrative and inte-
grative complexity in contrast to individual solutions.
The appliance is administrated with a clearly structured web-interface.
The Securepoint UTM solution is available as a pure software version or as sundry ap-
pliances which are especially adapted to the requests. The solutions vary from home
office and small office networks to great company networks with several hundred com-
puters.
