Characteristics and benefits of APKGate's integrated native threat management system

The APK Gate solution is an indigenous UTM that offers a full suite of integrated security services for networks of any size.

What is an integrated threat management system or UTM ?

Unified Threat Management, or UTM, is the practise of controlling security risks in a unified manner. Unified Threat Management is what it means to have this concept unified. So, what exactly is UTM? The term "unified threat management" (UTM) refers to a system that combines several firewall, access management, web application firewall, and other security modules into a single, unified system.

As an alternative to employing several devices or hardware, UTM may be used to safeguard the system and establish a robust barrier against cyber attacks via the installation of these modules.

As the term "integrated threat management" suggests, this firewall is really a unified defence mechanism that employs a number of different countermeasures. The most essential protection services that are included in UTM are firewall, web filtering, and web application firewall, all of which stand strong against a wide range of security threats. Unified Threat Management systems are crucial to the safety of a company's network.

Desert Security Company (APK), a leader in providing cyber security services in order to meet the security needs of the country's organizations, has designed, produced and implemented the integrated indigenous threat management (UTM) product and after testing the product in the laboratory and operational environment of the research center.

The Informatics Industries of the country and the assessment of the Information Technology Organization of Iran launched it on the market under the brand name APKGate. The production of this product inside the country has made it possible to add specific requirements of organizations and users.

Benefits of using an integrated threat management system, or UTM

Flexibility and adaptability

By purchasing UTM, it is possible to use a set of flexible solutions for network security management. Due to the flexibility of UTM and the provision of multiple security modules, it is possible to use the desired technology, depending on the needs of the organization. Also, an auto-updating UTM keeps your system ready to deal with the latest threats on the horizon.

Centralized integration and management

Normally, without using UTM, you may have to instal and configure several security components separately, including a firewall, application control, VPN, and more. This takes a lot of time and resources from the IT team. Meanwhile, using a unified threat management (UTM) system, everything is accessible and controlled through a single management console. 

This makes it easier to monitor the system as well as address specific components in the UTM that may need to be reviewed or updated. Also, the centralised nature of UTM makes it possible to monitor multiple simultaneous threats that affect different components.

to be economical

Because the security modules are centralised in the UTM, the number of devices needed to secure the network is reduced, resulting in significant cost savings. Also, the need for less staff to configure and monitor the system saves manpower costs.

Increasing awareness of network security threats

The combination of a UTM's focus and faster performance results in increased awareness of network security threats. The enhanced ability to deal with threats comes from UTM's ability to implement multiple threat response mechanisms in a coordinated manner.

Benefits of APKGate's natively integrated threat management system

APK Gate, a native UTM, includes a complete and comprehensive set of network security solutions for small to very large networks, which provides multiple security services in an integrated manner with the WUI and CLI user interfaces. 

APKGate's native UTM has all the benefits and features of a UTM. Using this product in the network entrance port, in addition to the possibility of applying powerful security policies in the form of a device and reducing complications through simple management, flexibility, easier maintenance, and easier updating, has the following advantages over other similar products:

• • Reasonable price compared to similar foreign products
• • Compliance with existing security policies and laws in the country
• • Instant service from the native support team at the time of need
• • Implement product customization requests in the shortest possible time.

The most widely used services APK Gate, the integrated management system for native threats

APK Gate's native UTM has presented itself as one of the best integrated and comprehensive network security management solutions by providing multiple security services in an integrated manner. The most used services in the APK Gate product are as follows:

• • user-based auditing service (accounting)

APK Gate's accounting service, with the aim of managing users' access to the Internet with the Captive Portal method, has provided restrictions such as time, volume, bandwidth, and monitoring of user activity for network managers.

• • Attack detection and prevention service (IPS/IDS)

The new generation of intrusion detection and prevention services uses intelligent methods to analyse network traffic and prevent suspicious and infected content from entering the network. The IDS/IPS service is able to detect a wide range of attacks in different layers of the network by constantly updating the signature of attacks on a completely secure platform, which, in addition to the method according to the pattern of attacks, uses behaviour analysis techniques to identify abnormal and risky behaviors.

• • Virtual Private Network Service

The VPN service aims to provide the necessary platform for data exchange in insecure networks by providing a secure platform with fast and cheap communication for global organisation communication and information transfer, which supports the IPsec protocol as well as the SSL VPN protocol.

• • Application detection and prevention service (App Detection)

With the ability to monitor the content of applications, this service provides network administrators with the possibility of managing, controlling, and monitoring the traffic of applications.

• Web server protection (web application firewall)

The WAF service of the APK Gate product, with its high ability to check and analyse the traffic of the application layer, protects servers and web software against numerous attacks, including OWASP Top 10, and also prevents the publication of sensitive information, covering one of the most critical security issues of an organization. Gives.

• • Web-based filtering (web filtering) service

This service aims to manage access to websites and provides the possibility to define the organization's policies regarding access to authorized and unauthorized sites.

Services provided after purchasing APKGate's native UTM

By purchasing APKGate Iranian UTM, the organisation will have access to the company's expert experts in the following situations:

Design and Implementation

• • Review and analyse the current situation.
• • Presentation of the plan
• • Execution and implementation
• • Submit documentation
• • Driving and delivery training

Support

• • Support and troubleshooting
• • Apply new updates and upgrades
• • Backup and restore settings
• Endpoint threat detection and response (EDR)
• • Periodic review of performance accuracy
• • Apply the requested security settings.

analyze

• • Creation of technical and management reports according to the standards of higher organisations (IT Organization and Non-Active Defense Organization)
• • Checking and analysing the security settings made on the native UTM
• • Checking and analysing all generated logs (security, user)
• • Providing design and corrective configuration
• • Performing security assessment operations

If you want to learn more about the APKGate product and get a product demo, you can call 021-42273.