Microsoft Forefront™ Protection Suite, formerly known as the Forefront Security Suite, offers a powerful combination of on-premise and off-premise security solutions that provide comprehensive and simplified protection of a customer’s IT infrastructure. The suite consists of the following products:
Microsoft Forefront Client Security
Malware protection for business desktop PCs, laptops, and server operating systems that is ease control.
Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint Server
Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server
Fast and effective server-level protection against malicious software (malware), spam, and inappropriate content using multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners.
Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
Microsoft-hosted antimalware and antispam service offering enterprise-class reliability for messaging security and management.
Forefront Threat Management Management Gateway Web Protection Service
URL and malware update service for Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010.
Forefront Protection Suite provides customers with the following:
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End-to-end protection of the IT infrastructure with a full range of protection products and services.
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Reduced up-front and ongoing costs.
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Simplified licensing, tracking, and deployment.
Forefront Protection Suite provides enterprises with comprehensive IT infrastructure security for Windows®-based desktop PCs and laptops, servers, and messaging and collaboration platforms. The suite includes the following:
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Protection against malware for desktop PC and file servers with Forefront Client Security.
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Multiple-engine antimalware and antispam protection for on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server environments with Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server.
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In-the-cloud antivirus and antispam protection for mail traffic with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Server.
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File filtering, keyword blocking, and antivirus scanning for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server document libraries with Forefront Security for SharePoint
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Virus scanning and content filtering for instant message conversations and file transfers with Forefront Security for Office Communications Server.
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Continuous updates for URL and Web malware filtering to ensure that employees can safely and productively use the Internet with Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Service.
In addition to saving around 30 percent off licensing the individual components, Forefront Protection Suite customers benefit from a single vendor relationship in addressing their client, server, and messaging and collaboration security needs. The Forefront Protection Suite subscription license provides customerswith automatic access to the latest versions of all products in the suite. Customers can also purchase licenses forForefront Protection Suite as part of the Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) Suite to take advantage of additional savings.
Forefront Protection Suite now includes Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, and Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Web Protection Service. Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server includes a new antispam engine that provides 99 percent detection rates with very low false positives (West Coast Labs). It also integrates with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, allowing you to provision, apply common policies, and manage quarantines for hosted and on-premise antimalware and antispam filtering in a single solution. Forefront Threat Management Gateway is a brand new subscription product that provides continuous malware and URL filtering updates to protect employees against the latest malicious Web sites.
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