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Microsoft Forefront

Security software for government agencies
Microsoft Forefront technologies deliver a comprehensive suite of award-winning security software, providing your agency with critical visibility into threats, vulnerabilities, and configuration risks. Offering integrated, end-to-end protection across your agency’s network and infrastructure, Forefront helps reduce your ongoing IT costs while increasing control of your network’s security and risk management needs. More secure communication from virtually anywhere on almost any device helps prevent unauthorized use of confidential information, enabling your workforce to more easily and securely share data. With agency-wide visibility and drilldown, you can easily and efficiently manage security issues and consolidate risk management along with the entire life cycle of user identities and credentials.

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Microsoft Forefront: Security software for government
Protect your messaging environment. Forefront Security for Exchange Server offers multi-engine protection against the latest e-mail threats while maintaining uptime and optimizing server performance. And Forefront Online Protection for Exchange offers online tools to help your organization satisfy retention requirements for e-discovery and compliance, encrypt data to preserve confidentiality, and maintain access to e-mail during and after emergency situations.
Microsoft Forefront: Security software for government
Guard against documents that contain malicious code. With Forefront Security for SharePoint, you can easily protect your Microsoft Office SharePoint collaboration environment, along with your document libraries, from viruses and unwanted files or content.
Microsoft Forefront: Security software for government
Block IM-based malware. Forefront Intelligent Application Gateway helps reduce your agency’s liability by using keyword filtering to prevent unauthorized sharing of confidential agency information or inappropriate content.
Microsoft Forefront: Security software for government