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As you are reading this, how many antivirus engines are scanning your Trust’s E-mails? or protecting your Sharepoint environment?
If you are not currently using Microsoft products it is probably one, am I right?
Microsoft Forefront Server Security will protect your NHS Organisation with multiple anti-virus engines, and yes it is centrally funded for NHS Trusts in England.
Microsoft Forefront Server Security ships with eight leading antivirus scan engines.
Choose up to 5 to simultaneously scan your emails/server applications to give you in depth protection
Forefront Products Covered by the NHS Agreement
As an NHS Trust you are entitled to the Forefront Security Suite of Products which will protect your PCs, servers and server applications.
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Malware protection for desktops, laptops and server operating systems that's easy to manage and control
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Forefront Security for Exchange Server
Forefront Security for SharePoint
Forefront Security for Office Communications Server
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Server-level antivirus, antispam and content-filtering products that help Trusts protect their email and collaboration environments against viruses, worms, spam and inappropriate content
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Ease of Management
Forefront integrates seamlessly into your existing Microsoft Infrastructure and makes use of existing technologies including Active Directory.
To simplify the administration process further, signature updates can be deployed via your existing software update process, WSUS for example.
With central policy management and meaningful reporting, forefront will enable you to protect your entire estate and manage it with ease.
The Forefront Roadmap
The Forefront product line is of great Importance to Microsoft going forward and is an area of huge investment. Future development will see ISA Server and Intelligent Application Gateway being super-ceded by Forefront Threat Management Gateway and Forefront Unified Access Gateway respectively. The next generation of Forefront, code name “Stirling” will further underpin the commitment to provide unified protection, policy control, and security management with a single console, from endpoints to network edge.
Where do I get started?
The Microsoft CUI Team working with Connecting for Health have developed NHS specific documentation on how to deploy and operate Forefront Client Security. These documents can be downloaded from here.
Further Information
Forefront Client Security – Watch a Demo (7 minutes)
Forefront in the NHS – Watch the Live Meeting Recording (45 minutes)
Forefront code name “Stirling” – An overview