October 2007 - Posts

Forefront Client Security Update with Windows Firewall check
The Forefront Client Security Team writes: Today we published another Security State Assessment (SSA) definition update on Microsoft Update! Included in this release is a new check that will provide visibility into end-user configuration of the Windows Read More...
Posted 31 October 07 12:06 by David Burt | 0 Comments   
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Gone Firewallin' with WS08 and WinVista
For those of you who read my standalone blog , you already know that I'm a huge fan of the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security . You can do bunch with this firewall functionality, including some hugely intelligent authenticating firewall rules. That Read More...
Posted 30 October 07 11:33 by ianhamer | 1 Comments   
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InfoWorld rates the Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 “Excellent”
Nice review at InfoWorld of our IAG SSL VPN appliance . Here’s the summary: 10/29/07 Microsoft Internet Application Gateway 2007 8.7 Excellent Microsoft's IAG 2007 is a full-featured SSL VPN solution available only as part of an OEM/appliance bundle. Read More...
Posted 29 October 07 09:30 by David Burt | 1 Comments   
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Forefront Client Security Health Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 Available
The Forefront Client Security team writes: While you’ve always had the ability to use MOM 2005 to monitor things like IIS and SQL for your Client Security servers, this management pack gives you the additional ability to monitor some key FCS services: Read More...
Posted 26 October 07 04:49 by David Burt | 0 Comments   
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Happy Birthday Windows Networking!
That's it! It's my turn to throw my hat into the Forefront Team Blog ring! Okay...I'm not 100% what that means. Moving on. My name is Ian Hameroff , and I'm one of the many bloggers you'll see up here on the Forefront blog-o-rama. If that's not a stellar Read More...
Posted 26 October 07 10:22 by ianhamer | 2 Comments   
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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (January – June 2007) is Now Available
The new Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is out from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) – the folks who make Forefront’s anti-malware engine. Vinnie Gullotto writes on the MMPC blog: The SIR shares the conclusions drawn by our research team Read More...
Posted 24 October 07 10:27 by David Burt | 1 Comments   
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Forefront Security and Systems Center make a winning ensemble for Paul Smith
Paul Smith, a designer and retailer of clothing and luxury goods, wanted a client security solution that would be easier to manage. The current solution had to be maintained separately, which conflicted with the company goal of a more streamlined, integrated Read More...
Posted 23 October 07 06:24 by David Burt | 0 Comments   
Do spammers change their tactics based upon recipient verification? Yes, they do.
Or, to be more precise, it sure looks like they do. In my other post on the publicly available spam tool, I mentioned that I came across a page that allowed people to verify whether or not an email address is actually live. The question naturally arises: Read More...
Posted 19 October 07 10:09 by tzink | 0 Comments   
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The advantage of multiple anti-virus engines on server products
The Forefront server security products provide several key security capabilities to Exchange and SharePoint customers, including an advanced multiple anti-virus engine manager that allows you to concurrently run up to 5 of the included Microsoft and third-party Read More...
Posted 19 October 07 07:06 by David Burt | 4 Comments   
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New spam outbreak: mp3 spam
There is a new spam outbreak that hit today, spam in mp3's. The filenames of the spam varies, and includes some of the following: Emotional ties, for example: dadsong.mp3, oursong.mp3, weddingsong.mp3 Well-known artists and songs, for example: santana.mp3, Read More...
Posted 18 October 07 11:11 by tzink | 0 Comments   
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Spammer tricks of the trade
A colleague alerted me to a spamming tool available on the web at the following web URL: http://verify-email.org It's a page that allows someone to enter in an email address and it will tell you whether or not that email address is live. In essence, this Read More...
Posted 15 October 07 11:00 by tzink | 0 Comments   
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Windows Live OneCare, Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Oh My!
Hi, my name is Mike Chan and I’m the product manager for Forefront Security for Exchange Server. I’ve been on the job for a couple of months now and after talking to many customers I’ve noticed that there is still some confusion in the marketplace regarding Read More...
Posted 12 October 07 09:35 by mchan | 0 Comments   
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Four Forefront Products are Info Security Product Excellence Finalists
The Finalists for Info Security 2008 Global Product Excellence and 2008 Outstanding Awards have been announced and Microsoft is very well represented – across our client, server, and edge security solutions. The Info Security Products Guide Awards recognize Read More...
Posted 11 October 07 10:58 by David Burt | 1 Comments   
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ISA Provides Secure Tunneling Between the Castles of Saxony --
The State Palaces, Castles, and Gardens of the Free State of Saxony, a state-owned company in Germany, wanted better protection for electronic data sent over a public network. Critical information was transmitted between the palaces and a central IT center Read More...
Posted 11 October 07 12:31 by David Burt | 0 Comments   
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What does a spam fighter do all day? Part 1
I was recently thinking about what a person who fights spam (like me) does all day. In other words, what is a day in the life of a spam analyst like? The question for me is two-fold, because the stuff I do now is quite different than when I first started Read More...
Posted 04 October 07 07:02 by tzink | 0 Comments   
Forefront Security for SharePoint Gets First ICSA Labs Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Certification
We’re proud to say that Forefront Security for SharePoint is the first product to receive new Enterprise Content Management certification from ICSA Lab, ( www.icsalabs.com ) ECM certification is important because it demonstrates that Forefront Security Read More...
Posted 03 October 07 09:29 by David Burt | 0 Comments   
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Forefront Security heads into “the cloud” -- we are protecting the new Office Online Services
You may have already read about today’s announcement of “ Microsoft Office Live Workspace, a new Web-based feature of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others .” Security is also moving into the Read More...
Posted 01 October 07 08:15 by David Burt | 0 Comments   
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