Features

“Stirling” integrates industry-leading detection technologies for advanced protection against viruses, spyware, spam, vulnerability assessment, and Web-based threats across multiple layers in the organization—endpoints, messaging and collaboration servers, and the network edge.

Forefront codename “Stirling” integrates multiple security technologies with correlated analytics and health assessment across endpoints, on-premise and online messaging, and collaboration security servers and the network edge for comprehensive protection.

A single management console for configuring security policies and providing visibility across endpoints, on-premise and online messaging, and collaboration security servers and the network edge.

A single dashboard enables enterprise-wide visibility into threats, vulnerabilities, and configuration risks to help administrators more easily investigate and respond faster to threats. 

Microsoft Forefront codename “Stirling” allows administrators to manage investigation cases. An investigation case is a collection of historical security event information relevant to the scope of the case, which includes the IT asset under investigation and the time period of the investigation.

“Stirling” introduces Security Assessment Sharing (SAS), an innovative technology that correlates security events from different Forefront products and third-party solutions, enabling administrators to quickly investigate and configure policies to remediate security events from the management console provided with “Stirling.”

The central management console in "Stirling" is the common infrastructure for management of Forefront products across endpoint, collaboration, on-premise and "in the cloud" messaging, and network security. “Stirling” integrates with Microsoft infrastructure, enabling customers to get more value out of their existing investments and increasing operational efficiency.

"Stirling" will also integrate with third-party technology partners to provide an enterprise-wide view of the environment. This enables administrators to aggregate information and look at it holistically, giving them greater visibility into their security state.