Microsoft Forefront helps protect business-critical Microsoft messaging and collaboration servers from viruses, worms, spam and inappropriate content before they can impact businesses and users. These application servers include Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows-based Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) gateways, Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

The benefits of Forefront server application security include:

A particular virus might elude a single scan engine, but not multiple antivirus engines, each developed using different technologies and virus researchers. Forefront offers layered defence by intelligently managing up to nine industry-leading antivirus engines, each with its own unique strengths, within a single solution. So businesses can benefit from a single solution without the expense of using numerous antivirus products.