Microsoft Forefront Security Updates Range

Microsoft has the suite of Forefront Security products are converging in its efforts to achieve security and identity of product offerings from the IT giant. Two new solutions are now presented - Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) and Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG), in addition to meat from Microsoft (and Forefront's) provides access and Web security.

TMG was launched in late 2009 to life, but UAG is not available until later in 2010.

Forefront is seeking a full rangeSecurity suite of solutions that of clients, servers and network perimeter. As part of Microsoft Forefront security sector an advantage over competition as they are for the protection and integration with other Microsoft products.

A measure of how seriously Microsoft break and dominate the market of security technology is the integration of Active Directory (AD) in the foreground area. Projects dealing with migration to AD, it is still on the market butthe large companies and many medium-sized companies have already in transition, the question for these customers is how secure the infrastructure with AD now in situ. Microsoft believes that its Forefront area is a natural and logical extension for the security conscious, AD clients.

TMG and UAG will plan offers full-grown multi-layered defense's access and control, and the Microsft solutions based on a "Software as a Service (SaaS) basis, which should offer to bring the education and overallTo reduce costs for many customers, especially small and medium-sized business market.

TMJ function is to protect users from malicious Web sites and the control over these websites or category can be accessed from web sites or blocked, for example, offer pornographic material. In other words, TMJ function as Web-access gateway, and it is also the reputation of Microsoft Services, a cloud-based data-threat repository.

Reputation Services collects information from nearly 50 million domainsrepresenting billions of Web pages. This database is supplemented by information collected by Microsoft and companies such as Hotmail, divided and third parties such as Bright Cloud. The integration with reputation services is one reason it has to understand a great interest in the TMG, as customers already, the nature and effectiveness of services from this threat databases available.

UAG extends found Direct Access (Windows 7) will be on non-Windows clients, 7; Direct Accesspromoted by Microsoft as an alternative to VPN access, but so far limited to Windows 7 with Windows Server 2008 R2 on the back end. This development means that XP and Vista users can now use the solution if the Direct Access Server components must be executed.

How good are these solutions as stand-alone products? Obviously rate is high, because Microsoft will put a great effort and research into them, and for a lot of money on the purchase ofTechnology (UAG has acquired the technology when Microsoft bought Whale Communications).

With clients, it is not a standalone function, which owns the attraction, however, this is a situation in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Forefront provides a robust, fully integrated and comprehensive security suite, for those customers to simplify the search, should be enhanced and security in depth, while integrating fully with a Windows environment, there is no real competition.

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