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Gartner positions gateProtect in “Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management”
November 2010 by gateProtect
gateProtect announced that it has been included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management. Gartner’s analysis is based on the completeness of the vendor’s business vision as well as its ability to execute on it.
Gartner provides its Magic Quadrants to give a graphical representation of vendors evaluated in a particular software market at a specific time period. Against this backdrop, 13 providers of Unified Threat Management solutions were placed in the “Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management 2010” report by John Pescatore and Bob Walder which Gartner published on 22 October 2010.
According to Gartner, “Although many of the products in the market look like "Swiss army knives" with just about every possible network security function thrown into the mix, in talking with Gartner clients and vendor customer references using the products, the analyst firm finds the most important security controls to be (in priority order):
– Standard network stateful firewall functions
– Remote access and site-to-site virtual private network (VPN) support
– Web security gateway functionality (anti-malware, URL and content filtering)
– Network intrusion prevention focused on blocking attacks against unpatched Windows PCs and servers “
Gartner only positions companies in its Magic Quadrant that meet its criteria, which include a minimum level of annual revenue and active customer references as well as the necessary functionality. For the current UTM report, gateProtect’s inclusion was based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision.
