Safeguard Information For Easy Anytime Access
Information exists almost everywhere in an organization—on servers, laptops, desktops, removable devices, and in e-mails. Users need access to this information from everywhere, to share it where appropriate, and to achieve maximum productivity with the assets they have. However, in such an environment, confidential information can leak and result in the loss of intellectual property, reduced productivity, and increased business costs: all of which can result in an inability to meet growing regulatory requirements.
To prevent information leakage, enterprise infrastructure needs to be secured and information must be discovered, classified, and protected regardless of its location or how it travels.
Microsoft has fundamentally changed the approach to information protection with the following products:
Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG) delivers comprehensive, secure remote access to corporate resources for employees, partners, and vendors on both managed and unmanaged PCs and mobile devices. Utilizing a combination of connectivity options, ranging from SSL VPN to DirectAccess, as well as built in configurations and policies, UAG provides centralized and easy management of an organization's complete anywhere access offering.
Active Directory Rights Management Services enables customers to augment their security strategy by protecting information through persistent usage policies, which remain with the information, no matter where it is moved. Customers can use AD RMS to help prevent sensitive information—such as financial reports, product specifications, customer data, and confidential e-mail messages—from intentionally or accidentally getting into the wrong hands.
Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 is a server role in Windows Server that provides simplified access and single sign-on for on-premises and cloud-based applications in the enterprise, across organizations, and on the Web. AD FS 2.0 helps IT streamline user access with native single sign-on across organizational boundaries and in the cloud, easily connect applications by utilizing industry standard protocols and provide consistent security to users with a single user access model externalized from applications.
Windows Identity Foundation enables .NET developers to externalize identity logic from their application, improving developer productivity, enhancing application security, and enabling interoperability.