Microsoft Forefront
Overview
Forefront is Microsoft’s new suite of Security
products that is being launched throughout the second half of 2007.
Our lead security instructor, Rob Ellett, is one of the few
trainers in Europe that is authorised to deliver this type of
training course and will be presenting at our Longhorn and
Forefront Technical Briefing at Microsoft on 3rd July. Global
Knowledge continues to recruit new trainers for our ever increasing
range of Microsoft security training courses and we have recently
achieved Microsoft’s Security Solutions competency which
demonstrates our capabilities in this area.
The Microsoft Forefront family of business
security products helps provide greater protection and control over
the security of your network infrastructure. Microsoft Forefront
suite of products easily integrate with each other, with your
organisation’s IT infrastructure, and can be supplemented through
interoperable third-party solutions, enabling end-to-end,
defence-in-depth security solutions.
Simplified management, reporting, analysis,
and deployment enable you to more efficiently protect your
organisation’s information resources and secure access to
applications and servers. With highly responsive protection
supported by Microsoft technical guidance, Microsoft Forefront
helps you confidently meet ever-changing threats and increased
business demands.
Forefront is a key component of Microsoft’s
strategy for providing end-to-end security for business customers.
This vision begins at the operating system. With the release of
Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1, vulnerabilities have
been greatly reduced, and the upcoming releases of Windows Vista
SP1 and Windows Server 2008 are centred around robust security.
Forefront security products augment the
security of these operating systems by providing additional layers
of security designed to protect information and control access to
business-critical resources and information.
The security of this information is further
enhanced through robust digital rights management, ensuring that
document-specific security and policy compliance is assured even if
those documents get into unauthorised hands.
Microsoft’s security products are tied
together through a powerful identity management infrastructure that
provides fine levels of granularity and control. This control is
further enabled by a broad set of management and reporting
capabilities that offer robust event collection, analysis, and
reporting, as well as the tools to create and enforce security best
practices.
Finally, Microsoft offers a wide array of
technical and industry-specific guidance to help businesses
configure their security products correctly and effectively.
Forefront Product Line
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 Server Security
Management Console
- 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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