Difference Between Firewall Throughput and IPS Throughput
[ad_1] Most vendors talk of firewall throughput even when they are advertising UTMs (Unified Threat Management Systems). There's a fundamental difference between a firewall and a UTM. A firewall merely does stateful inspection of the traffic whereas a UTM proactively stops attacks even on allowed ports because it contains the all important IPS (Intrusion Prevention System). This means that even if traffic is allowed to certain services, that traffic is continuously examined to detect malicious attacks. In other words, the IPS stops hacker attacks even on open ports.A UTM is installed with the specific purpose of providing greater security to the network. Which means that the IPS should be always on and functioning. But, by default, the IPS is turned off and vendors only talk of firewall throughput on a UTM....
