MICROSOFT FOREFRONT:
Microsoft Forefront delivers end-to-end security and access to information through an integrated line of protection, access and identity management products.
Security should be a means to a business end. Microsoft is working to deliver business ready security to help companies achieve their business goals while managing risk and helping ensure that the right people always have access to the information they need to get their jobs done.
Forefront Security products deliver protection, access, and management solutions, built around user identity and integrated with a highly secure, interoperable platform. Our solutions help to deliver a more contextual and user-centric security solution aligned to the needs of our customers.
Microsoft is working to achieve the goal of business ready security based on 3 fundamental tenets:
Integrate and Extend Across Enterprise
Help Protect Everywhere, Access Anywhere
Simplify the Experience, Manage Compliance
Deeply integrates with the identity infrastructure and across the stack
Support for heterogeneous environments
On-premises and hosted solutions for seamless connectivity
Open standards and protocols based identity and security platform
Defense in depth across multiple layers to help protect across endpoints, servers, and network
Secure identity-based access products help connect the mobile workforce virtually anywhere
Identity-aware protection help organizations secure information and enable policy-based access
Enable centralized management of the environment and gain critical visibility into the state of the infrastructure
Help improve security and compliance through identity tracking and enforcement throughout the enterprise
Provide policy management features and reporting to enable auditing and compliance
OPTIMIZE AND SECURE YOUR CORE INFRASTRUCTURE:
To meet evolving business needs, your IT infrastructure must continuously adapt to support new applications and capabilities. As your systems become more sophisticated, management costs and security risks can increase and affect your ability to maintain service levels. You can optimize and better secure your core infrastructure with integrated management and security solutions from Microsoft that reduce system complexity to help control costs, improve service levels, and increase business agility.
• Control costs • Improve service levels • Drive agility
