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UTM Series: ProSecure™ Unified Threat Management Appliance
The ProSecure UTM series of all-in-one gateway security appliances combine best-of-breed security technologies and patent-pending Stream Scanning Technology to protect businesses against today's Web, email, and network threats. Malware hosted on Web pages, phishing attacks, spam, virus infected emails, hackers, denial-of-service attacks, and other threats are now all part of a regular repertoire of sophisticated blended attacks that bypass traditional firewalls with ease.
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STM Series: ProSecure™ Web and Email Threat Management Appliance
The ProSecure STM series of Web and email security appliances combine best-of-breed security technologies and patent-pending Stream Scanning Technology to protect businesses against today's Web and email threats. Viruses and spyware hosted on Web pages, email phishing attacks, spam, malware infected emails, and other threats are now all part of a regular repertoire of sophisticated blended attacks that businesses now face.
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A Layered Defense Strategy: Gateway + Endpoint = Complete Security for Your Business.
Security breaches are incredibly harmful to businesses. Often resulting in internal network downtime, crippled IT infrastructure, and/or stolen confidential trade secrets. They consume enormous amounts of time and effort in the recovery process, and often end up costing businesses financially in both lost revenue and wasted time in remediation.

Virtual Machines & Real Vulnerabilities: Where Virtualization Meets the Reality of Security
With the rapid adoption of virtualization over the past few years, an organization is more likely to have a virtual machine somewhere in its environment rather than not. According to IDC, virtualization growth rose year over year from 46% in 2007 to 54% in 2008. Virtualization offers many benefits including scalability, flexibility, rapid deployment of new servers, cost savings, and is energy efficient and thus environment friendly. With all these immediate benefits, it is no surprise that virtualization is quickly transforming the IT landscape.

NETGEAR® UTM and VPN Firewalls Help Small/Medium Businesses Meet PCI Compliance Standards for 2009
NETGEAR® understands the importance of being PCI compliant. While many businesses are still working to become PCI compliant, NETGEAR has already implemented a new two-factor authentication solution for all of its SSL, VPN, and UTM firewall products. Two-factor authentication is another step in enhancing networking security and at the same time meet PCI standards without having to replace the existing hardware.

How ProSecure™ UTM Helps Small Businesses Meet PCI Requirements
Compliance with PCI DSS is a business essential for any merchant or service provider that transmits, stores, or processes cardholder data related to any of the major credit card companies.

The Dirty Secret Behind the UTM: What Security Vendors Don't Want You to Know
At first glance, Unified Threat Management (UTM) devices seem to best fit the small business security needs, based on the cost, simplicity, and automation of these "all-in-one" devices. However, instead of being the end all solution for such businesses, legacy UTMs became "a box of compromises".

NETGEAR® In-The-Cloud Distributed Spam Analysis Technology: Network Based Protection Against Email-Borne Threats
Over the past few years, Email has emerged as the primary vector for an array of computer threats such as spam, viruses, Trojans, and phishing attacks.

How Internet Usage Puts Your Business at Risk
Small and mid-size businesses have come to rely heavily on the Internet as an essential part of their day-to-day operations. It offers speedy access to information and enables 24x7 communications with the outside world.

The Role of the Internet in the Propagation of Malware
Businesses of all sizes rely on the Internet as an essential component of their daily operations. The company's Web site is a primary entry point to its current and prospective customers, as well as other key stakeholders; employees conduct the majority of their business operations via the Web; and Email has had a profound effect on the speed and efficiency of internal and external communications.

Comprehensive Internet Security – Employing A Layered Defense
Aircraft carriers employ a comprehensive layered defense strategy, beginning with proactive detection. Radar is utilized as the first line of defense, to detect any approaching attackers.

An In-depth Analysis of SMB vs. Enterprise Security
One of the most commonly used acronyms in business today is "SMB". Yet, most vendors who service both Small and Mid-sized Businesses and Enterprises differentiate the two based either on the company's annual revenue or by its number of employees. However, when it comes to IT security, neither of these measurements is very appropriate.

NETGEAR® Stream Scanning Technology
The proliferation of Web 2.0 technologies has dramatically increased the Internet's importance to small and mid-size businesses. However, it has also fueled a variety of new attack strategies, as attackers take advantage of the vast connectivity it provides, coupled with the confidence it elicits among users.

NETGEAR® Hybrid In-the-Cloud Distributed Web Analysis Technology: Next Generation Cloud-based URL Filtering
The NETGEAR® Hybrid In-the-Cloud Distributed Web Analysis technology represents the next generation of URL filtering and has the breadth, performance, and accuracy small and medium businesses need to effectively filter the Web.