Antigen Product Overview
Help Protect Your Messaging and Collaboration Servers from Viruses, Worms, Spam, and Inappropriate Content
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Protecting Your Business
Microsoft Antigen server security products help businesses protect their e-mail and collaboration servers from viruses, worms, spam, and inappropriate content.
Many of today's viruses and worms are designed by criminal hackers to rapidly infect millions of computer systems across the world through the Web and e-mail. The worldwide cost of viruses and worms in 2003 was estimated to be more than $12 billion. At the same time, companies are being overwhelmed with unsolicited e-mail--analysts estimate that spam accounts for anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of all e-mail traffic. In addition to e-mail threats, an evolving ecosystem of viruses, worms, and blended threats are finding new ways to propagate inside corporate networks--including via portals and instant messaging applications. As a result, messaging and collaboration infrastructure is a critical focal point for businesses in the fight against malicious software.
Antigen server security products provide comprehensive protection for e-mail and collaboration environments with:
| • | Advanced Protection: Multiple scan engines at multiple layers throughout the e-mail infrastructure provide improved protection against e-mail threats. |
| • | Availability and Control: Tight integration with Microsoft Exchange and Windows-based SMTP servers maximizes availability and management control. |
| • | Secure Content: Helps organizations eliminate inappropriate language and dangerous attachments from internal and external communications. |
Antigen E-mail Server Security Products
To prevent infection and improve spam detection, Antigen e-mail security products combine the strengths of multiple, industry-leading technologies to uncover the latest e-mail threats and spammer tactics. Providing complete server-level protection, Antigen e-mail server security products help protect your e-mail infrastructure at multiple points in the network to prevent downtime and productivity loss. These products include:
| • | Microsoft Antigen for SMTP Gateways, which helps protect e-mail infrastructure against infection and downtime at the network perimeter, stopping the latest e-mail threats before they ever reach users. |
| • | Microsoft Antigen for Exchange, a server-based antivirus solution that provides comprehensive protection across Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2000 environments. It can be deployed on front-end and back-end Exchange servers, protecting against perimeter threats as well as providing internal incident containment. Inbound and outbound scanning is performed at the SMTP stack and real-time scanning at the Exchange Information Store. |
| • | Microsoft Antigen Spam Manager can be deployed on an SMTP gateway or Exchange server, and uses multiple techniques to help stop spam before it can impact user productivity. Antigen Spam Manager provides a frequently updated, signature-based anti-spam engine, several layers of content and mail-host filtering, and integration with the Exchange 2003 Intelligent Message Filter (IMF). |
Microsoft Antigen with SP1 has been released and includes enhanced cluster support, scanning of Office 2007 file formats and globalization for installation on non-English platforms. Download the SP1 trial software here.
Antigen Collaboration Server Security Products
Antigen collaboration server security products allow users to communicate and collaborate, without the risk of sending or receiving malicious code, sharing infected documents, or distributing inappropriate content. These products include:
| • | Antigen for SharePoint, a security solution for administrators of Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 that helps protect SharePoint document libraries from viruses and unwanted content. |
| • | Antigen for Instant Messaging, a security solution for administrators of Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 that enables real-time virus and content scanning of instant messaging conversations and file transfers. |
Antigen Server Security Management Products
Microsoft Antigen server security management products help businesses centrally control their Antigen protection for Exchange and Windows SMTP servers, as well as SharePoint and Live Communications Server. These products include:
| • | Antigen Enterprise Manager, a browser-based management console that provides centralized deployment, quarantine management, and signature updating, SMTP/SNMP alerting, and reporting.1 |
| • | Antigen Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager, which supplies critical events and alerts on virus, worm, and spam activity to MOM 2005 from Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and Antigen Spam Manager, as well as monitors the health and availability of these products. |
For More Information
The following links provide a more in-depth look at Antigen.
| • | Find answers to frequently asked questions about Antigen products |
| • | See what others are saying about Antigen |
| • | Download a free trial of Antigen |
| • | Try Antigen in a free virtual lab |
| 1 | Sybari Antigen for SharePoint and Sybari Antigen for Instant Messaging are centrally managed by the previous version of Antigen Enterprise Manager – Sybari Enterprise Manager. |