Ben Bernstein and Stephen Bowie tell us what the value is for Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) with Direct Access (DA).
After this, we do a whiteboard of UAG + DA architecture, including explaining how it works with multiple UAG servers. Here's how the rest of the interview breaks down:
How UAG supports legacy IPv4 clients (Marker 3 @ 8:02)
How does the client know to connect to the proper DNS server and not the one from the local ISP? (Marker 4 @ 13:17)
How do we know it's securely talking to the proper DNS server? (Marker 5 @ 15:01)
What other components on UAG enable DA? (Marker 6 @ 16:10)
Additional value add for UAG with DA (Marker 7 @ 17:55)
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Forefront Client Security (FCS) received its 10th consecutive VB100 award in the October 2009 Edition of Virus Bulletin. In order for a product to be awarded the VB100 award, it must detect 100% of the WildList malware samples and must not have any false positives (FP) on the Virus Bulletin clean file collection.
FCS received one of the highest scores overall – and the highest among major competitors - in both the proactive and reactive aspects of the new VB RAP (Reactive and Proactive) test, reaffirming the strong result shown in August VB edition and in the May 2009 report from AV-Comparative.org.
Today we are announcing a schedule and strategy update for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010, a component of the upcoming Forefront Protection Suite (previously codenamed “Stirling.”)
We are delaying the release Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 - anti-malware for Windows desktops and servers - until the second half of 2010. Based on customer feedback and market trends, we have made the strategic decision to build Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) on System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft’s solution to comprehensively assess, deploy, and update servers, clients, and devices. This approach better aligns our customers’ client management and security infrastructure, helping simplify deployment and reduce costs.
We are confident this is the right decision for our customers. In the interim, we will continue to offer our current Forefront Client Security (FCS) solution, which supports and protects both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. We are developing the necessary tools and guidance to facilitate the future upgrade from Forefront Client Security to Forefront Endpoint Protection and will help customers with the migration process.
We also remain committed to providing integrated management for the Forefront Protection Suite. We will release Forefront Protection Manager in the first half of 2010, as scheduled, providing multi-server management for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint. We will provide information about endpoint security management in Forefront Protection Manager at a later time.
We are on track to release all other Forefront products on schedule, as part of our Business Ready Security strategy:
o Fourth quarter 2009: Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 and Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010
o First half 2010: Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint, Forefront Identity Manager 2010.
The Forefront team