Netgear ProSecure UTM10 review
Netgear’s ProSecure UTM10 aims to offer small businesses a complete appliance security solution at a very tempting price. Is it too good to be true? In this review we find out.
With the ProSecure UTM10, Netgear is offering small businesses an affordable stepping stone into appliance based network security. It’s very easy to install, offers an impressive range of features and delivers good performance across the board.

Netgear's security partners need no introduction as you have Mailshell handling anti-spam, Sophos scanning for viruses and malware plus Commtouch delivering URL category filtering. There's more as the stream scanning technology first seen in Netgear's higher-end STM appliances is also present. This uses a multi-threaded approach to provide near real time scanning of all network traffic.
Mailshell offers good anti-spam measures and along with five different sensitivity levels for its spam analysis you have standard black and white lists and supports for RBLs. For SMTP you can tag, block or log spam messages whilst for POP3 you can only tag them. Infected mail attachments can also be stripped out and a custom message inserted in the subject line.
For the price, the Commtouch web filtering is a bargain as it offers more than 60 categories to pick and choose from. As with the firewall, you also have default settings active that block users from a general set of common web nasties.
Along with POP3, SMTP and IMAP, Sophos' anti-virus measures can be applied to HTTP, FTP and even HTTPS traffic. The latter is a feature we don't normally expect to see at this price point making the UTM10 excellent value.
Nuisance IM and P2P apps can be controlled but the list is small and this also only extends to blocking or allowing them. Even so, it worked fine during testing as we could stop clients using Windows Messenger and Live from logging in. We also blocked all access to BitTorrent and saw clients such as Vuze failing to log in and unable to download anything.
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Dave is an IT consultant and freelance journalist specialising in hands-on reviews of computer networking products covering all market sectors from small businesses to enterprises. Founder of Binary Testing Ltd – the UK’s premier independent network testing laboratory - Dave has over 45 years of experience in the IT industry.
Dave has produced many thousands of in-depth business networking product reviews from his lab which have been reproduced globally. Writing for ITPro and its sister title, PC Pro, he covers all areas of business IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, network security, data protection, cloud, infrastructure and services.
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