Microsoft's Forefront Security Products

Overview

Microsoft Forefront delivers comprehensive, end-to-end solutions, both on-premises and in the cloud, to help protect users and enable secure access virtually anywhere. With our integrated portfolio of protection, identity, and access products, you can help secure your environment and manage access across data, users, and systems.

Multi-layered Protection

Forefront delivers leading malware protection solutions across endpoints, messaging and collaboration application servers, and the network edge.

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

The next version of Forefront Client Security, helps enable businesses to simplify and improve endpoint protection while greatly reducing infrastructure costs.

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange

Delivers layered technologies to actively help protect businesses’ inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations.

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

Incorporates multiple scanning engines from industry-leading partners into a single solution to detect viruses and spyware faster and more effectively than single-engine solutions.

Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint

Combines multiple anti-malware scanning engines from industry-leading security partners with file and keyword filtering to help provide comprehensive protection against the latest threats.

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010

Provides a secure web gateway that protects users from malware and other web-based threats.

Identity-based Access

Microsoft’s identity-based access technologies and Forefront solutions build upon Active Directory’s infrastructure to enable policy-based user access to applications, devices, and information.

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010

Delivers a comprehensive solution for managing identities, credentials, and identity-based access policies across heterogeneous environments.

Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010

Provides comprehensive, secure remote access to corporate resources for employees, partners, and vendors on both managed and unmanaged PCs and mobile devices.

Simplified Management

Microsoft Forefront products include management capabilities that integrate with your existing environment to make it easier to deploy and manage your enterprise protections and maintain compliance. 

Forefront Protection Server Management Console 2010

Provides multi-server management for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint. The management console delivers an easy to use graphical interface for server discovery, configuration deployment, reporting, quarantine management, engine and definition update deployment and integration with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange.

Benefits

With new security point solutions multiplying in both number and complexity, you would think that organizations would have all the protection they need. But business security issues continue to grow, due in large part to the typical operational challenges you face every day, such as:

• Integrating your security products so they work well together and leverage each other
• Integrating your security products into pre-existing IT infrastructure
• Managing and deploying security simply, pervasively, and without mistakes
• Managing security as a single solution instead of a collection of disparate products

Forefront provides a comprehensive family of highly effective security products. By concentrating our efforts on the integration and management aspects of security, Forefront products can help prevent misconfiguration, enable your organization to deploy security products more pervasively, and give you a unified view into the security state of your networks. By addressing operational issues Forefront helps makes your network more secure — the configurations are correct, security is deployed where it is needed, and management and reporting are simplified.