NETGEAR® a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, today introduced the NETGEAR ProSecure® UTM150 – a Unified Threat Management (UTM) gateway for businesses with around 150 users that refuse to compromise on security.
Securing modern networks is more difficult than ever before. Recent studies report that malware infections have doubled in the past year, and that web browsing now causes 80% of infections. Mobility, cloud and virtualization solutions introduce new risks to applications and data while users demand more services from new platforms and locations. Traditional "big IT" approaches are complex and costly while lower cost offerings may simply be insufficient. Growing companies may be forced to choose between products that are overly complicated or unacceptably risky.
NETGEAR's ProSecure products take the guesswork out of planning and implementing comprehensive security solutions. The new UTM150 delivers unparalleled award-winning reliability and performance in an affordable and simple package. Enhanced graphical reporting capabilities and automatic software and malware signature updates dramatically reduce network management overhead. Busy IT professionals can replace an existing VPN/firewall or router with a UTM in less than 30 minutes, ensuring complete protection against viruses, malware, spam, phishing attacks, denial-of-service attacks and malicious embedded code. The UTM150 can even prevent productivity losses due to inappropriate online activity.
"Today, with many UTM vendors offering products that seem similar on the surface, it becomes even more important for customers to focus on how effective these solutions actually are at protecting mid-sized enterprise networks," said Lawrence Pingree, research director for data center transformation and cloud security at Gartner. "IT decision-makers should also consider speed, capacity, reliability and ease of use when evaluating UTM devices."
"The NETGEAR UTM150 is a revelation – I never expected a unified threat management device could directly improve the productivity of our workforce," said Michael Christie, Director of Information Technology at Lawley Automotive Group, the largest auto dealership group in southern Arizona. "With its speed, flexibility and rock-solid security, the UTM150 makes it easy to keep employees away from the distraction of web and social media sites that aren't work-related, to manage VPNs between our six locations, and to ensure our network isn't crippled by malware or other online threats. Before the UTM150, I couldn't find enterprise-grade protection and intelligent controls in such an affordable gateway security solution."
"Growing businesses tell us they need 'smart IT,' not 'big IT.' The UTM150 delivers on this commitment with reliable protection and intelligent controls that previously required expensive, hard-to-configure solutions," said Jason Leung, Senior Product Marketing Manager at NETGEAR. "This is the 'democratization of IT' in action, where growing companies now have access to a level of security sophistication that until recently was only available to larger enterprises with larger budgets. Customer surveys prove this – the number one reason why customers purchase ProSecure equipment is our security effectiveness, and the number two reason is the extraordinary value our equipment represents."
