Check Point Software’s of late rolled out UTM-1 security appliance is touted to be in excess of a technique to defend networks against Internet-borne threats that is: it is capable of being a home media center. PC-ready UTM-1 hardware can be transformed to give support to the playing of videos. As is shown by this “Checkpoint UTM-1 to Media center in my living room.”
Posted by somebody named Sasha Eilinyaov, the video shows a couple of white-gloved hands curtaining the case off a UTM-1, having a video card and a new hard drive, adding a keyboard, loading Windows XP and playing “Family Guy” on an attached monitor. The clip has been viewed 3,445 times as of this writing, a total that has over doubled. While Eilinyaov disparages the box’s hard drive and memory, the device was tested fine in a Network World Clear Choice Test previous this year. It was touted to be fit for giving safety to small businesses linked to the Internet by connections smaller than 45M bps.
UTM-1 boasts of giving support to a firewall, VPN, intrusion avoidance and anti-spyware at the cost of $7,500. These sports can be added with an application firewall, Web server, SSL VPN network extension, QoS controls and URL filtering.
