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Earlier this month InfoWorld's longtime product reviewer Keith Schultz posted a favorable review of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 . Here's an excerpt: Managing user access in businesses today is something like playing traffic cop in an intersection of...

A s we all know, right now cloud computing holds center stage in the IT industry. Vendors, service providers, press, analysts and customers are all evaluating and discussing the opportunities presented by the cloud. A very important part of the discussion is security. While the benefits of cloud computing...

Hi all – I thought I would share another Forefront customer story. This one is tied to our recent posts on secure collaboration . Founded in 1824, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is a leading health-sciences center with one of the top 10 cardiovascular centers in the United States. MUSC...

Tomorrow at 2:30 pm Eastern time, tune in via Twitter to see Kelly Higgins of Dark Reading interview JG Chirapuarth, senior director of the Microsoft Identity and Security Business Group. You can follow the discussion at either the Dark Reading or Forefront Twitter Account .

Today we released Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 , which makes it a good time to talk about secure business collaboration. It is clear that collaboration drives the modern enterprise. Sharing documents and applications within the company, from...

TechNet Edge videographer and fellow blogger David Tesar briefly mentioned First American Title Insurance’s use of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) in a previous post .  The short case study is available here , but David and I also caught up with First American VP of Infrastructure Cameron Cosgrove...

Hi all - I'm joining the team of Forefront bloggers here on the Because It's Everybody's Business site. As a senior marketing communications manager on the Core Infrastructure Marketing team, I'll be pitching in with updates, comments and insights about "all things" business security. That includes information...

Hi All - No question about it: Cloud is THE big topic of discussion in IT circles these days. The opportunities, challenges and questions related to cloud are many. Microsoft recently held a cloud computing event at the University of Washington, where we clarified that Microsoft is "all in...

Every day most of us take for granted people’s ability to login, authenticate, and access the data they need. We start to take more notice when people can’t access their data, perhaps remotely over the internet, or there is a need for companies to share data. Under all of this is an assumed cost of managing...