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Follow Forefront on Twitter: If you are a Twitter fan, be sure to follow us at http://twitter.com/MS_Forefront ! Our own John "JG" Chirapurath, senior director in the MSFT Identity and Security Business Group, is leading the Forefront Tweet charge in his typically pithy way. Come Read More...
Posted 30 November 09 07:11 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Intelligent Application Gateway, Windows Server 2008, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, Forefront Security for Office Communications Server, Forefront Threat Management Gateway, events, cloud, Windows 7, Geneva and Identity Platform, Forefront Protection for Exchange Server
Direct Access and UAG video - Deep dive with a Program Manager: 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 Read More...
Posted 27 October 09 05:15 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
Filed under Intelligent Application Gateway, Windows Server 2008, Stirling, Identity & Security News, Forefront Threat Management Gateway, events, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners
Schedule and Strategy Update for Forefront Endpoint Protection: 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 Read More...
Posted 08 October 09 09:00 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Windows Server 2008, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, Forefront Threat Management Gateway, events, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners
Steve Ballmer on The New Efficiency: Making business decisions regarding IT investment is tougher than ever. To help, today Microsoft hosted a special VIP Business Leadership Roundtable event. CEO Steve Ballmer and moderator Robert Youngjohns, President of the Microsoft US Subsidiary, discussed Read More...
Posted 29 September 09 10:56 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Intelligent Application Gateway, Windows Server 2008, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, Forefront Security for Office Communications Server, Forefront Threat Management Gateway, events, cloud, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners , Geneva and Identity Platform
Forefront tops VB100: British tech publication V3.co.uk recently posted an article with the headline Third of anti-virus vendors fail to protect Vista . The latest tests conducted by independent anti-virus testing organization Virus Bulletin have revealed that 12 out of 35 Read More...
Posted 06 August 09 05:34 by Forefront Blogger | 3 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, events, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners
ID and Security in the Cloud: Many companies and IT leaders are eager to realize the benefits of cloud computing, but security is often a concern. For example, a recent study by Maritz Research found that 59% of IT leaders in the US rated security as the biggest risk with cloud. As Read More...
Posted 24 July 09 08:50 by Forefront Blogger | 4 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Stirling, Identity & Security News, events, cloud, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners , Geneva and Identity Platform
Forefront Unified Access Gateway beta 2: I’m very pleased to announce that today Forefront Unified Access Gateway Beta 2 is available for download from www.microsoft.com/uag . This beta release marks an important milestone in Microsoft’s remote access strategy as it brings together a host of Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 11:04 by Forefront Blogger | 3 Comments
Filed under Intelligent Application Gateway, Windows Server 2008, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, cloud, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners
Business Ready Security news at WPC: This week in New Orleans Microsoft is hosting its annual Worldwide Partner Conference. We made several announcements today at the conference about our identity and security solutions. This news is part of our Business Ready Security strategy to help both Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 05:01 by Forefront Blogger | 3 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Intelligent Application Gateway, Windows Server 2008, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, Forefront Security for Office Communications Server, Forefront Threat Management Gateway, events, cloud, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners , Geneva and Identity Platform
Forefront: CCTM Certified for UK government use: Last week West Coast Labs announced that Forefront Client Security has received the CESG Claims Tested Mark (CCTM) ,which provides a government quality mark for malware detection and performance, based on accredited independent testing. CESG is the UK Read More...
Posted 30 June 09 11:12 by Forefront Blogger | 1 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Windows Server 2008, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, events, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners
Survey says: Security the top challenge for IT pros: Today Microsoft released findings from a survey of 1200+ IT professionals in the US, UK, Germany and Japan. Some of the top findings about their opinions on IT in a recession, priorities and where they are investing are here . Among the most interesting Read More...
Posted 23 June 09 08:15 by Forefront Blogger | 3 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Stirling, Identity & Security News, events, cloud, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners
Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly 'Morro') and Forefront: Today, Microsoft released a public beta of its new, free consumer anti-malware product codenamed “ Morro ”, which now has an official product name: Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) . This new solution will address the growing need for a PC security Read More...
Posted 23 June 09 06:20 by Forefront Blogger | 1 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Stirling, Identity & Security News, Forefront Security for Office Communications Server, Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Windows 7
Server & Tools Business Exec discusses state of IT, answers your questions on June 23: Are you interested in hearing about how other IT pros are reacting to economic conditions and where they’re investing (particularly security?) Do you have questions about Microsoft’s efforts to help IT be more cost effective and deliver new solutions Read More...
Posted 18 June 09 05:15 by Forefront Blogger | 3 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Intelligent Application Gateway, Windows Server 2008, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, Forefront Security for Office Communications Server, Forefront Threat Management Gateway, events, cloud, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners , Geneva and Identity Platform
Business Ready Security webcasts: Register here for a new series of webcasts on the entire lineup of Forefront products supporting the Business Ready Security strategy . Starting tomorrow, webcast topics will include: Forefront Identity Manager, the Forefront "Stirling" security suite Read More...
Posted 19 May 09 10:25 by Forefront Blogger | 1 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Intelligent Application Gateway, Windows Server 2008, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, Forefront Security for Office Communications Server, Forefront Threat Management Gateway, events, cloud, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners , Geneva and Identity Platform
Forefront Online Security for Exchange: One of the news items we announced with the April 16 introduction of the Business Ready Security strategy was the update/renaming of Exchange Hosted Filtering. The service is now called Forefront Online Security for Exchange (FOSE.) It is the first Forefront Read More...
Posted 29 April 09 08:39 by Forefront Blogger | 1 Comments
Filed under Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Stirling, Identity & Security News, events, cloud, Windows 7
Business Ready Security and Windows 7: Here's a quick video from the RSA Conference last week, grabbed from the Windows Security Blog . JG Chirapurath, director for MS Identity and Security, discusses how Forefront Client Security in "Stirling ," Forefront Unified Access Gateway , and Windows Read More...
Posted 27 April 09 08:40 by Forefront Blogger | 1 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Intelligent Application Gateway, Stirling, Identity & Security News, events, cloud, Windows 7

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