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Microsoft Forefront is a comprehensive line of business security products that provide greater protection and control through integration with your existing IT infrastructure, and through simplified deployment, management, and analysis.
Today’s businesses rely on robust, cost-effective, and secure IT services. Security administrators know firsthand that threats from hackers and criminals continue to increase, forcing them to spend large amounts of time managing security. The wide variety of threats against networks, hosts, and applications has led to a security patchwork in which administrators attempt to assemble disparate products from multiple vendors into an effective security solution. The lack of a comprehensive, integrated solution requires that administrators develop expertise in a large and expanding number of products. Multiple user interfaces, increasingly complex configurations, and an inability to correlate alerts and reports has led to a lack of clarity and control over the security state of the organization, increasing business risk as well as total cost of ownership. As a result, organizations expend far too much effort as they seek to deliver an effective, manageable security environment in the face of current and emerging threats. The Benefits Of Forefront The Microsoft Forefront family of business security products helps provide greater protection and control over the security of your network infrastructure. Microsoft Forefront products easily integrate with each other, with your organization’s IT infrastructure, and can be supplemented through interoperable third-party solutions, enabling end-to-end, defence-in-depth security solutions. Simplified management, reporting, analysis, and deployment enable you to more efficiently protect your organization’s information resources and secure access to applications and servers. With highly responsive protection supported by Microsoft technical guidance, Microsoft Forefront helps you confidently meet ever-changing threats and increased business demands. INTEGRATION BY DESIGN
Integrate with applications Microsoft Forefront anti-malware and secure access products are specially tuned to integrate with and protect business critical server application such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook® Web Access and Microsoft Office SharePoint. This integration provides critical protection against the newest generation of application-specific attacks. Integrate with IT infrastructure Forefront products work with your existing IT infrastructure, including Active Directory®, Group Policies, Systems Management Server, and Windows® Update Services. This unifying infrastructure enables you to seamlessly manage security service deployment, distribution, configuration, and enforcement, and do so with a fine level of granular control. Integrate across Forefront Forefront products are designed to work together so they can leverage their capabilities for greater security coverage. A COMPREHENSIVE PRODUCT FAMILY
Forefront helps protect Microsoft client and server operating systems. The highly responsive anti-malware capabilities of Microsoft Forefront Client Security provide real-time, scheduled, or on-demand detection and removal of viruses, spyware, rootkits, and other emerging threats. Protect critical server applications Forefront helps protect Microsoft-based application servers through a defense-in-depth strategy. Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Security for SharePoint help businesses protect their Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments against viruses, worms, spam, and inappropriate content. These products integrate multiple antivirus scan engines from industry-leading security firms into a single solution, providing comprehensive protection for messaging and collaboration environments. Adding an extra layer of protection, ISA 2006 provides robust access control, application- specific and protocol specific data inspection. Enable more secure, controlled access Forefront offers a broad array of firewall, VPN and encryption technologies, and identity management capabilities that help you ensure only authorized users can gain access to the appropriate IT resources and data. ISA Server 2006 provides strong network access control, while IAG 2007 helps secure access to a full range of network applications from both managed and unmanaged devices. Safeguard sensitive data Forefront products help safeguard sensitive data and protect intellectual property. ISA Server 2006 provides a combination of application-specific filters throughout the network, as well as technologies that help ensure the confidentiality and authenticity of your valuable data. SIMPLIFIED, CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT
Simplify deployment Utilities such as ISA Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool and configuration wizards help set a solid basis for robust security installation. Forefront’s integration with Active Directory and update systems such as Systems Management Server provide a common foundation for change and configuration management. Users and administrators both benefit from the centralized distribution of up-to-date configurations, policies, and operating system or anti-virus updates for server and client hosts. Unify reporting and analysis Forefront centralizes the collection and analysis of security management information, because security information is stored in a single SQL Server™ repository, which can use SQL Server Reporting and Analysis Services to identify and interpret security events. Simplify management Security management and reporting is centralized in Forefront; its components integrate fully with existing management systems including Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Systems Management Server, and Windows Server® Update Services. Forefront’s integrated management consoles offer Microsoft’s familiar interfaces and ease of- use, reducing training time and helping to control business costs. By offering multi-level integration with your existing IT infrastructure and simplified, centralized management, Microsoft Forefront business security products provide greater protection and control so that you can deliver a more secure environment for your business users. Forefront is a key component of Microsoft’s strategy for providing end-to-end security for business customers. This vision begins with robust security in the operating system, which Forefront security products augment by providing additional layers of security designed to protect information and control access to business-critical resources and information. The security of this information is further enhanced through robust digital rights management, ensuring that document-specific security and policy compliance is assured even if those documents get into unauthorized hands. Microsoft’s security products are tied together through a powerful identity management infrastructure that provides fine levels of granularity and control. This control is further enabled by a broad set of management and reporting capabilities that offer robust event collection, analysis, and reporting, as well as the tools to create and enforce security best practices. Finally, Microsoft offers a wide array of technical and industry-specific guidance to help businesses configure their security products correctly and effectively. Back To Top |
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