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Forefront

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Forefront: Security products for your business

The Microsoft Forefront family of business security products help address the challenges of widespread connectivity, malware threats, fragmented solutions, and operational difficulties. With Forefront, your business can confidently meet ever-changing threats and business demands. Microsoft Forefront products easily integrate with each other and your organisation's information technology (IT) infrastructure and can be supplemented through interoperable third-party solutions, for end-to-end security solutions.

The Forefront product line consists of the following:

  • Microsoft Forefront Client Security (formerly called Microsoft Client Protection)
  • Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server (formerly called Microsoft Antigen for Exchange)
  • Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint (formerly called Antigen for SharePoint)
  • Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (currently called Antigen for Instant Messaging)
  • Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006
  • Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007

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Forefront Security for Exchange Server: Multi-engine protection against the latest e-mail threats

Forefront Security for Exchange Server integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading security firms into a single solution to help you protect your business's Microsoft Exchange Server messaging environment from viruses, worms, and spam. With Forefront Security for Exchange Server, you get an interface and central operating area for up to five scanning engines (Microsoft or third party) to scan e-mail. Through deep integration with Exchange Server, scanning innovations and performance controls, Forefront Security for Exchange Server helps protect messaging environments while maintaining uptime and optimising server performance.

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ISA Server 2006: Deliver new levels of security, simplified management, and performance

ISA Server 2006 helps protect IT environments from Internet-based threats while providing users with fast and secure remote access to applications and data. ISA Server 2006 brings together application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), and Web cache services into a single edge solution, which helps improve network security, performance, and manageability while reducing the cost of network operations.

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Microsoft Forefront

Comprehensive product line
Use this end-to-end suite of security products to protect information and control access across operating systems, applications, servers, and branch offices.

Integrated security capabilities
Increase efficiency and control of your network's security.

Simplified deployment and management
Have greater confidence that your network and business is protected.



Forefront Security for Exchange Server top features

Premium spam protection
Help ensure your business has the most up-to-date protection against the latest spam attacks.

Layered protection
Get protection at multiple checkpoints to stop viruses, worms, and spam before they have an adverse effect on your network and user productivity.

Multiple antivirus engines for advanced protection
Run up to five scan engines at once, and in different combinations across the server system.

Increased uptime
Use multiple-engine solutions to continue to scan e-mail even during engine or signature updates.

Efficient threat removal
Prevent spam and worm traffic from reaching mailboxes, which reduces workload on your e-mail server and preserves disk space for business-critical information.

Built-in Management Console
Let your administrators fully configure Forefront Security for Exchange Server, either locally or remotely.

Integrated monitoring
Monitor the health of Forefront Security for Exchange Server as part of your corporate operational management practices.



ISA Server 2006 top features

Simplified management
Take advantage of easy-to-use wizards for publishing Windows SharePoint Services, Exchange Server, and general Web sites.

Simplified deployment and configuration
Use automated VPN connectivity tools and answer files on removable media for unattended installation.

Integrated support for Exchange Server 2007
Get support for Exchange Server 2007 built in to ISA Server 2006.

Virtual private networking
Automatically configure a site-to-site VPN connection between two separate offices with a Branch Office VPN Connectivity Wizard.

Advanced firewall protection
Choose from a new set of rule wizards that make it easier to create access policy.

HTTP compression
Reduce file size by using algorithms to eliminate redundant data during transmission of HTTP packets.

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