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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
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Available now: Windows Identity Foundation for building more secure, simplified access to cloud applications: Today at our Professional Developers Conference Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), a new extension to the .NET Framework that makes it easier for developers to create more secure applications with interoperable, Read More...
Posted 17 November 09 04:35 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
Filed under Windows Server 2008, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, events, cloud, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners , Geneva and Identity Platform
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server launches: Today at the TechEd Europe conference, in conjunction with the launch of Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft launched Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server. The product and evaluation software is available now. Part of our Business Ready Security Read More...
Posted 09 November 09 04:56 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
Filed under Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Intelligent Application Gateway, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, events, cloud, ID and Security Partners , Forefront Protection for Exchange Server
Forefront scores in VB100: 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 Read More...
Posted 13 October 09 10:04 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
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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
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MSFT Identity and Access news: Forefront Identity Manager RC1 and ADFS 2.0 SAML interoperability: The RC1 release of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM) is available today here . The next version of Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, FIM 2010 dramatically improves enterprise identity management by delivering powerful self-service capabilities for Read More...
Posted 30 September 09 02:00 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
Filed under Intelligent Application Gateway, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, events, cloud, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners , Geneva and Identity Platform
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
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Microsoft Security Essentials available tomorrow: Microsoft Security Essentials, the new no-cost, anti-malware service that helps protect consumers against viruses, spyware and other malicious software, will be available tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept. 29. It requires no registration, trials or renewals and Read More...
Posted 29 September 09 04:44 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Windows Server 2008, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, events, Windows 7, ID and Security Partners
Forefront Identity Manager RC1 at TEC 2009: Forefront Identity Manager Release Candidate 1 will be released on Sept 30 - moving closer to final release next year. In advance of the RC1 release, we will preview it this week at The Experts Conference (TEC) 2009 EMEA . TEC 2009 EMEA presents a great Read More...
Posted 15 September 09 11:49 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
Filed under SSA Program, Identity & Security News, events, ID and Security Partners , Geneva and Identity Platform
CERN replaces Symantec with Forefront: CERN - the European Organization for Nuclear Research - recently announced in its computing newsletter that it is replacing Symantec with Forefront Client Security to protect PCs on its network. Why? From the newsletter: By the end of this year, all NICE Read More...
Posted 10 September 09 07:58 by Forefront Blogger | 0 Comments
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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 | 2 Comments
Filed under Forefront Client Security, Stirling, SSA Program, Identity & Security News, events, 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 | 2 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
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 | 2 Comments
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Posted 27 May 09 11:36 by Forefront Blogger | 2 Comments
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