Forefront: Business Ready Security

As businesses look to drive growth, they need to increase collaboration, sharing and access to information but must do so while
protecting their assets and infrastructure. Frequently this must be addressed in the context of shrinking budgets and increased regulatory pressure. In response to these business challenges and opportunities, Microsoft is taking a fundamentally different approach to security.
We call it business ready security.

Business Ready Security Video

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Microsoft is working to achieve the strategy of Business Ready Security based on 3 fundamental tenets:

Business Ready Security - Integrate and extend security across the enterprise

Business Ready Security - Help protect everywhere, access anywhere

Business Ready Security - Simplify the security experience, manage compliance

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Featured Customers

“With Microsoft business-ready security solutions, we’re confident that we have a security infrastructure that will protect our assets without eating up a lot of IT management time.”

Robert Amos
Manager of Infrastructure Systems
NuStar Energy

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“Complex programs and projects with global constituents remain on schedule and on budget, while sensitive documents and data receive ironclad protection.”

Vijay Takanti
Vice President of Security
and Collaboration Solutions
Exostar

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“A solid security infrastructure is a critical prerequisite to making this valuable data available online to teachers … who can use it to improve teaching and make better decisions”

Jeff Sellers
Acting Deputy Commissioner, Division of Accountability, Research, and Measurement
Florida Department of Education

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“If you are accessing MOD services, it is imperative to provide a strong identity validation of that individual’s right to access his or her personal information”

David Longhurst
Adviser to the Chief Information Officer,
The Ministry of Defence

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Hear from Industry Experts

Read the ESG white paper

Business Enablement Demands Tight Identity and Security Integration.

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Business Ready Security

Jon Oltsik, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, talks about how security can better support business through an integrated approach, centralized command and control, identity,
and information protection.
(2 minutes, 38 seconds)

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Overcoming Security Fatigue

Scott Crawford, research director with Enterprise Management Associates, discusses how companies are containing security threats and costs through a more holistic view and approach.
(2 minutes, 29 seconds)

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Best Practices

Jon Oltsik, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses security best practices, including systems management, risk assessment, IT processes and adapting to business procedures.
(2 minutes, 32 seconds)

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Security in a Down Economy

Jon Oltsik, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses how security managers and IT leaders can better secure their systems and information in an environment of tighter budgets
and fewer resources. (1 minute, 39 seconds).

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Solutions

Microsoft’s next generation security products launching this year will be brought to market through
a comprehensive set of five solutions aligned with the business ready security strategy. These solutions
align strongly with the needs of our customers to secure their key workloads and infrastructure
deployments while enhancing the value of current and planned IT investments and helping maximize ROI. Find out more about the solutions below:

Secure Messaging Solution
Helps deliver more secure business communication from virtually anywhere and on virtually any device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information.
Secure Collaboration Solution
Enables more secure business collaboration from virtually anywhere and across devices, while helping to prevent unauthorized use of confidential information.
Secure Endpoint Solution
Helps protect client and server operating systems from emerging threats and information loss, while enabling more secure access from virtually anywhere.
Information Protection Solution
Discover, protect, and manage confidential data throughout your business with a comprehensive solution integrated with the computing platform and applications.
Identity and Access Management Solution
Enables more secure, identity-based access to applications on-premises and in the cloud from virtually any location or virtually any device.