Microsoft ForeFront 2010

Microsoft ForeFront delivers end-to-end security and access to information through an integrated line of protection, access and identity management products.

Security should be a means to a business end.  Microsoft is working to deliver business ready security to help companies achieve their business goals while managing risk and helping ensure that the right people always have access to the information they need to get their jobs done.

Forefront Security products deliver protection, access, and management solutions, built around user identity and integrated with a highly secure, interoperable platform. Our solutions help to deliver a more contextual and user-centric security solution aligned to the needs of our customers.

Microsoft is working to achieve the goal of business ready security based on 3 fundamental tenets:

Integrate and Extend Across the Enterprise

• Deeply integrates with the identity infrastructure and across the stack.
• Support for heterogeneous environments.
• On-premises and hosted solutions for seamless connectivity.
• Open standards and protocols based identity and security platform.

Help Protect Everywhere, Access Anywhere

• Defense in depth across multiple layers to help protect across endpoints, servers, and network.
• Secure identity-based access products help connect the mobile workforce virtually anywhere.
• Identity-aware protection help organizations secure information and enable policy-based access.

Simplify the Experience, Manage Compliance

• Enable centralized management of the environment and gain critical visibility into the state of the infrastructure.
• Help improve security and compliance through identity tracking and enforcement throughout the enterprise.
• Provide policy management features and reporting to enable auditing and compliance.

The Forefront product line currently consists of the following products:

Management

• Forefront Identity Manager 2010.
• Forefront Protection Server Management Console.

Protection & Access

• Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010.
• Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server.
• Forefront Online Protection for Exchange.
• Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint.
• Forefront Security for Office Communication Server.
• Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010.
• Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010.

Related platform technologies include

• Windows Identity Foundation.
• Active Directory Technologies.

For more information or Pricing on Microsoft ForeFront please contact AME Solutions Licensing Team on 01392 824 022 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it