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Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is a comprehensive and integrated edge secure Web gateway that helps provide protection from malware for employees surfing the Web and policy enforcement for acceptable Web destinations. It also delivers unified perimeter security that simplifies deployments by integrating firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, antivirus, and anti-spam. It has simple management and reporting for distributed environments, including large offices and branch offices.
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A secure Web gateway is a solution designed to keep users safer from Web-based threats. In general, it will include Web anti-malware inspection, URL filtering, and HTTPS inspection. With its long history as Microsoft ISA Server, Forefront Threat Management Gateway adds strong inspection of Web-based protocols to help ensure they conform to standards and are not malicious. It further extends this strong application layer inspection through the Network Inspection System.
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Forefront Threat Management Gateway is different in four major ways:
Secure Web Gateway: Forefront Threat Management Gateway can be used to protect internal users from Web-based attacks by integrating Web antivirus/anti-malware and URL filtering. With HTTPS inspection, it can even provide these protections in SSL-encrypted traffic.
Improved Application Layer Defenses: Forefront Threat Management Gateway includes Network Inspection System, which enables protection against vulnerabilities found in Microsoft products and protocols.
Improved Connectivity: Forefront Threat Management Gateway enhances its support for NAT scenarios with the ability to designate e-mail servers to be published on a 1-to-1 NAT basis. Additionally, Forefront Threat Management Gateway recognizes SIP traffic and provides a method to traverse the firewall.
Simplified Management: Forefront Threat Management Gateway has improved wizards to simplify its deployment as well as its continued configuration.
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Forefront Threat Management Gateway MBE is a product designed specifically for mid-sized businesses purchasing Windows Essential Business Server. Forefront Threat Management Gateway builds on its functionality to provide a complete secure Web gateway solution, with such features as URL filtering and HTTPS inspection. It also delivers enhanced application layer inspection with Network Inspection System. With these features and others, it enables organizations to provide a higher level of security to their users.
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Yes, Forefront Threat Management Gateway runs on a server with a 64-bit processor. For more details, please see the system requirements.
