Along with the tremendous educational benefits brought about by the Internet have come increasingly difficult network security threats and challenges. To begin with, network threats have changed from identity-based threats to content-based ones, putting enormous pressure on network security assets to adapt. Conventional network security systems, which are just a collection of mostly software-based point solutions cobbled together into an ad hoc "system", have not been able to keep up with the need for "real time" protection. In contrast, FortiGate consolidated security systems combine firewall, VPN, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), antivirus, Web filtering and antispam functionality in one easy to install, maintain and update platform.