For many small to medium-size businesses, Unified Threat Management (UTM) is an emerging solution for most of their security needs. UTM solutions aim at switching the traditional firewall of an organization to an all-in-one network security solution that performs tasks ranging from anti-virus scanning, mitigateion of intrusion, bandwidth throttling, load balancing, and an advanced system for threat protection. 

UTM devices are saving many small to medium business thousands from not having to buy network devices, which might also have additional licensing costs. The fact that unified threat management devices merge a wide range of security features into a single solution avoiding the hassle of maintaining many different solutions and for some business, it will be the first time that they will have affordable security features for their business.