Description: A security appliance is any form of server appliance that is designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic. UTM Security appliances perform multiple network security functions: firewalling, network intrusion prevention and gateway antivirus (AV), gateway anti-spam, VPN, content filtering, load balancing and on-appliance reporting. Network Security Appliances history and facts.
| 1951 – First commercially available computer was the Ferranti Mark 1. |
| 1974 – First routers – Xerox routers came into operation sometime after early 1974. |
| 1980 – First ASIC’s (application-specific integrated circuit) – Ferranti produced perhaps the first gate-array, the ULA (Uncommitted Logic Array), around 1980. |
| 1980’s – First firewall security appliance was created in the Late 1980’s. |
| 1991 – Official launch of the World Wide Web for public use by Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues at CERN. |
| 1992 – First FPGA’s (field-programmable gate array). |
| 2004 – First Unified Threat Management (UTM) network security appliances for multiple security functions in one single network appliance. |
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