Forefront Online Protection for Exchange

Overview
How It Works
Features

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (Approx. 5 minutes)

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) is an internet-based service that protects your businesses’ inbound and outbound email from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and email policy violations.

Five financially backed SLAs attest to a high quality of service, including 100% known virus and 98% antispam protection
Globally load-balanced network of data centers helps ensure a 99.999% network uptime
Save costly bandwidth by delivering only clean mail to your network
Helps reduce your up-front capital investments using a predictable, subscription-based payment model
Live phone support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at no additional cost

Gartner MQ for Secure Email Gateways

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange works with any email platform and utilizes a global network of state-of-the-art, fully redundant data centers.

Requires no hardware or software to install, manage, and maintain
Starts with a simple MX record configuration change; FOPE can be up and running quickly
Easy to manage and administer using a web browser-based Administration Center
Our unique globally load-balanced architecture helps ensure smooth email flow even if a datacenter is unavailable by automatically routing email through another datacenter
Helps protect your company's IP reputation by using separate outbound delivery pools for high risk email
Live phone support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Additional 90 day Implementation Project Manager support available for qualifying accounts

FOPE Datasheet

The unique Forefront Online Protection for Exchange architecture provides you with the following components, each of which includes several key features:

Multi-engine, heuristics-enabled anti-virus and multi-layered antispam helps eliminate threats before they reach the corporate firewall
Helps ensure business policy compliance using Regular Expressions based pattern matching
The add-on Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE) service provides you with a convenient, easy-to-use identity based encryption solution
Provides flexible transport layer security (TLS) options at no additional cost to help secure business communication
The optional Directory Synchronization Tool helps synchronize your organization’s Active Directory users and their safe senders
Helps ensure that no email is lost or bounced in the network by automatically queuing email for up to five days in case your servers are unavailable
Provides comprehensive reporting, auditing, and message trace capabilities

FOPE Service Description

Motorsports Promoter Enhances Security and Drives Down Costs with Hosted Filtering

"By avoiding hardware costs, licensing costs, and manpower to maintain the infrastructure, our savings are easily more than $120,000."

Brandon McNulty
Senior Director of Technology

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Equipment Rental Company Switches to Hosted Microsoft Solution and Reduces Spam

"From licensing costs to reduced spam-related IT tasks to increasing productivity, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange is saving us money. Any IT administrator would be crazy to use anything else."