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Cheat Sheet: Security appliances

A security appliance? What does this do?
Well as you might imagine, it's an appliance - often a black or silver (techies may call it 'gun metal') box - which handles a lot of your security needs such as antivirus, anti-spam and content filtering. The various models work in different ways and address different issues in many cases - with varying degrees of integration and threat management - but the premise is basically the same.

And where would I put that?
The idea is that the appliance sits at the gateway and cleans data as it enters the enterprise, or passes across network borders.

Is this a new thing?
No, not by any stretch of the imagination.

So why are we talking about this now?
Because everybody else is. While a number of companies put their bets on appliances some years ago, over the past year or so we've seen a lot of companies jumping on the bandwagon and bringing out their own appliances; so software vendors are now doing hardware and services companies are now doing hardware. Cheat Sheet: Security appliances - Security Strategy - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

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