UTM - Price/Performance

Choosing the right network security solution is one of the most important decisions you will make for your IT infrastructure. With so many factors to consider when selecting the right product, it’s easy to lose sight of one of the most important goals: getting the best performance for your money.

Comparing the major brands by this all important metric – price/performance – can become a difficult chore. Though Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, and SonicWall make it possible to derive this metric based on their own published numbers, WatchGuard has taken the next step and put them all together for you – so you can make a direct comparison among Unifed Threat Management vendors.

UTM PERFORMANCE

As networks demand more and more efficiency, unified threat management (UTM) solutions have come to dominate the firewall/VPN market. Where once a network would have one firewall and a number of point solutions protecting the gateway, all the necessary security features – firewall, VPN, endpoint, web content filtering, spam blocking, virus protection, intrusion prevention, numerous networking features, and more – have become integrated into a single network security appliance. The efficiencies of a single solution securing a gateway from top to bottom are easy to imagine; it’s why UTM dominates the market.

WatchGuard XTM solutions actually push beyond the UTM paradigm into what is called extensible threat management, offering features far beyond normal security functions, automating processes, and allowing future growth as security threats evolve.

PUTTING THEM HEAD-TO-HEAD

Among all major brands, when you turn on every possible layer of protection at the gateway and start processing data, WatchGuard gives you the best performance per dollar spent. It is plain to see that no other brand comes close to the performance for the price.

Our price/performance leadership position is even stronger when you consider that many of the competing solutions are not even true UTM devices. Many are missing crucial functions that require you to purchase additional servers and point solutions to build out your network security portfolio. WatchGuard does it all - without slowing down.

For more details on how WatchGuard compares against its competitors visit the individual competitor pages here.

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