Overview
Microsoft Forefront delivers comprehensive, end-to-end solutions, both on-premises and in the cloud, to help protect users and enable secure access virtually anywhere. With our integrated portfolio of protection, identity, and access products, you can help secure your environment and manage access across data, users, and systems.
Multi-layered Protection
Forefront delivers leading malware protection solutions for messaging and collaboration application servers and the network edge.
Delivers layered technologies to actively help protect businesses’ inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations.
Incorporates multiple scanning engines from industry-leading partners into a single solution to detect viruses and spyware faster and more effectively than single-engine solutions.
Combines multiple anti-malware scanning engines from industry-leading security partners with file and keyword filtering to help provide comprehensive protection against the latest threats.
Provides a secure web gateway that protects users from malware and other web-based threats.
Identity-based Access
Microsoft’s identity-based access technologies and Forefront solutions build upon Active Directory’s infrastructure to enable policy-based user access to applications, devices, and information.
Delivers a comprehensive solution for managing identities, credentials, and identity-based access policies across heterogeneous environments.
Provides comprehensive, secure remote access to corporate resources for employees, partners, and vendors on both managed and unmanaged PCs and mobile devices.
Simplified Management
Microsoft Forefront products include management capabilities that integrate with your existing environment to make it easier to deploy and manage your enterprise protections and maintain compliance.
Provides multi-server management for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint. The management console delivers an easy to use graphical interface for server discovery, configuration deployment, reporting, quarantine management, engine and definition update deployment and integration with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange.
Benefits
With new security point solutions multiplying in both number and complexity, you would think that organizations would have all the protection they need. But business security issues continue to grow, due in large part to the typical operational challenges you face every day, such as:
- Integrating your security products so they work well together and leverage each other
- Integrating your security products into pre-existing IT infrastructure
- Managing and deploying security simply, pervasively, and without mistakes
- Managing security as a single solution instead of a collection of disparate products
Forefront provides a comprehensive family of highly effective security products. By concentrating our efforts on the integration and management aspects of security, Forefront products can help prevent misconfiguration, enable your organization to deploy security products more pervasively, and give you a unified view into the security state of your networks. By addressing operational issues Forefront helps makes your network more secure — the configurations are correct, security is deployed where it is needed, and management and reporting are simplified.
How To Buy
Microsoft offers Forefront security products individually, as well as in three different licensing suites to meet your IT protection needs. The licensing suites are:
- The Forefront Protection Suite - for customers who want the comprehensive security offered by the Forefront protection products.
- The Microsoft Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) Suite - multiple Microsoft products to provide your organization the newest innovations in compliance, real-time collaboration, security, communication, desktop management, and more. The Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite provides an outstanding opportunity for you to use your existing investments in the Microsoft core platform. The Enterprise CAL Suite includes the Forefront Protection Suite, as well as Active Directory Rights Management Services. Learn more.
- The Exchange Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) with Services Suite - the best choice for enterprises looking for a security solution specifically for their Exchange environment. This offering includes Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, as well as other server CALs and technologies.
NOTE: Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 server is not included in the Forefront Protection Suite. This product is licensed on a per-processor basis and is required to use the Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Service.
You can purchase Forefront from
authorized resellers or through Microsoft Volume Licensing. For questions, contact a Microsoft representative at (800) 426-9400 in the United States or (877) 568-2495 in Canada.