Integrated Threat Management

ALSO CALLED: UTM, Security Threat Management, Threat Management, Unified Threat Management, ITM
DEFINITION: Integrated threat management is a comprehensive approach to network security that addresses multiple types of malware, as well as blended threats and spam, and protects from intrusion at both the gateway and the endpoint levels. Components of an integrated threat management system are part of a centrally administered architecture. The integrated approach to threat management developed in response to  … 
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INTEGRATED THREAT MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): …  an environment in which malicious attacks are becoming more frequent, the nature of those attacks is becoming more complex and their impact is becoming more serious for inadequately protected organizations. Many attacks involve blended threats: carefully developed combinations of malware created to cause as much harm as possible. Because of the complexity of attack methods, security approaches protecting from a single type of malware or a single attack vector may fail.According to a survey of major corporations (reported in Securing the Endpoint and Gateway: CA's Integrated Threat Management Vision), … 
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