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Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) enables businesses by allowing employee to safely and productively use the Internet for business without worrying about malware and other threats. It provides multiple layers of continuously updated protections – including URL filtering, antimalware inspection, intrusion prevention, application proxy, and HTTP/HTTPS inspection - that are integrated into a unified, easy to manage gateway, reducing the cost and complexity of Web security. Forefront TMG enables organizations to perform highly accurate Web security enforcement by stopping employee access to dangerous site, based on reputation information from multiple Web security vendors and the technology that protects Internet Explorer 8 users from malware and phishing sites.
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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 2010 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 2010 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 2010 includes Network Inspection System, which enables protection against vulnerabilities found in Microsoft products and protocols.
Improved Connectivity: Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 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 2010 recognizes SIP traffic and provides a method to traverse the firewall.
Simplified Management: Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 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 2010 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 2010 runs on a server with a 64-bit processor. For more details, please see the system requirements.
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Forefront TMG Web Protection Service is part of Forefront Protection Suite and ECAL. Forefront TMG 2010 is not part of these suite offerings and must be licensed separately.
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The Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Service provides continuous updates for malware filtering and access to cloud-based URL filtering to protect against the latest Web threats.
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No. Forefront TMG Web Protection Service is licensed separately. It can be licensed stand-alone, as part of the Forefront Protection Suite, or Enterprise CAL.
