ZYXEL USG 200

Like Cyberoam, this UTM also provides stateful packet inspection, which

means, the content of the packet is scanned along with the header. The

uniqueness of this device is that, for anti-virus scanning it provides two

different options: first is its own engine and second is kaspersky engine. It is

basically targeted to small office environment, ideally an office of 50 people.

It has one PCMCIA slot where you can plug in wireless card to add up wireless

capabilities. The card was not shipped to us, so we couldn't test it. Compared

to USG 300, it has larger database of virus (when tested). Hence it can be used

as first line of defense for small office.

In the tests, it performed well as compared to others. In the anti-virus

test, it blocked 87% of viruses but in blocking the macro virus, it didn't

perform well as compared to Cyberoam. In the anti-spam test, it again could not

perform well. We tried blocking the port and it was successfully jammed. We ran

arpspoof which it didn't detect but dos attack and port scanning was detected.

Bottomline: If you want to deploy an UTM at your branch office with

small workgroup, then this is a good buy.