Microsoft Forefront TMG Core Capabilities

Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 is positioned as a Secure Web Gateway. The core new features of this product are:

• URL filtering: improves blocking of malicious or inappropriate sites using aggregated data from multiple URL filtering vendors and the anti-phishing and malware technologies that also protect Internet Explorer 8 users.
• HTTPS Inspection: inspect outbound HTTPS traffic in order to protect your organization from security risks inherent to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) tunnels, such as viruses and other malicious content that could infiltrate the organization undetected.
• Intrusion Prevention (NIS): Protects against browser-based and other Microsoft vulnerabilities.
• Web anti-malware: Provides highly accurate malware detection with the same world-class engine that is used by Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft Forefront products.
• Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64): first Microsoft Edge protection product that leverages the scalability and increased memory space improvements of the Windows 64 bit platform.