What Is The Prosecure Unified Threat Management (Utm) Appliance - NETGEAR UTM5 Reference Manual

Introduction
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This chapter provides an overview of the features and capabilities of the NETGEAR ProSecure®
Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliance. This chapter contains the following sections:
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What Is the ProSecure Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliance?

• Key Features and Capabilities
• Service Registration Card with License Keys
• Package Contents
• Hardware Features
• Choose a Location for the UTM
Note: For more information about the topics covered in this manual, visit
the NETGEAR support website at http://support.netgear.com.
What Is the ProSecure Unified Threat Management (UTM)
Appliance?
The ProSecure Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliance, hereafter referred to as the
UTM, connects your local area network (LAN) to the Internet through one or two external
broadband access devices such as cable modems, DSL modems, satellite dishes, or
wireless ISP radio antennas, or a combination of those. Dual wide area network (WAN) ports
allow you to increase the effective data rate to the Internet by utilizing both WAN ports to
carry session traffic, or to maintain a backup connection in case of failure of your primary
Internet connection.
As a complete security solution, the UTM combines a powerful, flexible firewall with a content
scan engine that uses NETGEAR Stream Scanning technology to protect your network from
denial of service (DoS) attacks or distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks, unwanted traffic, traffic
with objectionable content, spam, phishing, and web-borne threats such as spyware, viruses,
and other malware threats.
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