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Microsoft Forefront is a comprehensive line of business security products that provides greater protection and control through integration with your existing IT infrastructure, and through simplified deployment, management, and analysis.

Today’s businesses rely on robust, cost-effective, and secure IT services. Security administrators know firsthand that threats from hackers and criminals continue to increase, forcing them to spend large amounts of time managing security. The wide variety of threats against networks, hosts, and applications has led to a security patchwork in which administrators attempt to assemble disparate products from multiple vendors into an effective security solution.

The Microsoft Forefront family of business security products helps provide greater protection and control over the security of your network infrastructure. Microsoft Forefront products easily integrate with each other, with your organization’s IT infrastructure, and can be supplemented through interoperable third-party solutions, enabling end-to-end, defense-in-depth security solutions. Simplified management, reporting, analysis, and deployment enable you to more efficiently protect your organization’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.


Comprehensive

  • Helps protect client and server operating systems
  • Helps protect Microsoft-based application servers through an optimized defense-in-depth strategy
  • Enables more secure and controlled access to the appropriate IT resources and data

Intergrated

  • Integrates with other Microsoft security products and Microsoft server applications
  • Integrates with your existing Microsoft-based IT infrastructure, including Active Directory
  • Integrates across Forefront products

Simplified

  • Simplifies deployment configurations, policies, and anti-malware updates
  • Unifies reporting and analysis of security management information
  • Simplifies management by reducing the number of management consoles
Forefront is a key component of Microsoft’s strategy for providing end-to-end security for business customers. This vision begins with robust security in the operating system, which Forefront security products augment 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 unauthorized 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.