Forefront Team Blog
News, updates and insights about enterprise identity and security solutions.
New Report from the USDOJ: Data Breaches: What the Underground World of “Carding” Reveals
There is a fascinating 33-page paper on the underground economy of stolen data by Kimberly Kiefer...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 06/03/2008
Announcing ISA Server 2006 Service Pack 1 New Features
This summer, we will be releasing Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 05/27/2008
A Look at Threat Management Gateway
Microsoft support engineer Yuri Diogenes really digs into the Threat Management Gateway (TMG) beta....
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 05/27/2008
New Citrix Branch Repeater Uses ISA Server
Citrix has announced the availability of the new Citrix Branch Repeater, an "all-in-one" device for...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 05/21/2008
Stirling blog post new Stirling resources
Microsoft Forefront code-named "Stirling" is our new integrated security solution. We launched the...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 05/19/2008
Moderate Vulnerability Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Could Allow Denial of Service (952044)
Yesterday's patches included a vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, which is...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 05/14/2008
Forefront Client Security takes Silver medal for Eweek Endpoint Product of the Year
Forefront Client Security was released just under a year ago, but we continue to get serious...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 05/13/2008
Gadgetell likes our ads
From the popular Gadgetell website: Microsoft Forefront brings some humor to security by JG Mason on...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 05/08/2008
Microsoft announces its next-generation secure remote access solution, the Forefront Unified Access Gateway
LAS VEGAS, Nevada. - April 29, 2008 -- At the Interop conference today, Microsoft announced its...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 04/29/2008
Latest Security Intelligence Report: Trojan War Heating Up
Our Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) has just released the latest Security Intelligence...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 04/23/2008
Danny Popper talks about the new Forefront beta preview
Danny Popper talks about the new Forefront beta preview Hey everyone, My name is Danny Popper, and...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 04/17/2008
RSA 2008 is almost here!
It’s almost time for the annual RSA security conference in San Francisco. We will be sending a big...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 04/02/2008
Microsoft Acquires Komoku
Microsoft Acquires Komoku Microsoft strengthens anti-malware protection with leading-edge rootkit...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 03/20/2008
More customers choose Forefront Security for SharePoint to secure SharePoint installations
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint (FSSP) continued to gain enterprise momentum at the...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 03/03/2008
Windows Server 2008 and Forefront Client Security Deliver a “Safer Together” Solution
The Forefront Client Security Service Pack 1 and Forefront Client Security / Windows Server 2008...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 02/27/2008
Forefront wins two Info Security Awards
We are pleased to announce that two of our world-class Forefront security products were honored by...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 02/18/2008
CRN: "Forefront Gaining Steam In Channel"
Nice article in CRN this week about the progress of Microsoft's security products channel business:...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 01/24/2008
Publishing Communicator Web Access 2007 through ISA Server 2006
The ISA team has just published a gudie for Configuring Office Communicator Web Access 2007 for...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 01/24/2008
Have you seen "The Lone Server?"
“Did you know that there is only one Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft.com today? The rest have...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 01/18/2008
Microsoft positioned in Challengers Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, 2007
Microsoft has been placed in the Challengers Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 01/18/2008
IDC Study: Microsoft security partner programs succeed in making partners more profitable
IDC and Microsoft released, today, a study that shows that the Microsoft Partner Program is enabling...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 01/14/2008
Northwest Airlines uses ISA Server 2006
A nice case study of Northwest Airlines, complete with a video! Northwest Airlines (NWA), a major...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 01/10/2008
Announcing the Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research and Defense Blog
Check out our new Research Blog. Some good technical details: Hi everyone. This is Jonathan from the...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 01/04/2008
Managing an enterprise deployment of Forefront Client Security
From the Forefront Client team: We’ve seen a lot of questions from customers asking whether Client...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 01/02/2008
Response to Trust-based messages
In my other post in a Q&A excerpt with Dave Crocker by Investor's Business Daily, I'd like to...
Author: tzink Date: 12/29/2007
Spam's new nemesis: Trust-based messages
The other day I was reading Investors Business Daily and came across an article whose title you see...
Author: tzink Date: 12/29/2007
2008 Security Industry Predictions from the Forefront Team
It’s almost 2008, so it’s the time of year when people make predictions for the coming year. The...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 12/20/2007
Microsoft placed in Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for SSL VPN, North America, 3Q07
Microsoft has placed in the Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for SSL VPN, North...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 12/17/2007
It's December! Time for the spam season, right?
Ah, the holidays are upon us. And, as we all know, 'tis the season for piles of spam! Or is it? Last...
Author: tzink Date: 12/10/2007
Announcing the Microsoft Forefront Technology Adoption Program
With the successful release of Forefront Client Security v1, it’s time to focus our efforts on the...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 12/06/2007
More than 20 percent of Exchange on-premise mailboxes with Forefront Security for Exchange Server
From an interview with, Margaret Arakawa, senior director of Security & Access Product Marketing...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 12/04/2007
Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 1 is Now Available
The Forefront Security for Exchange team writes: Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 11/30/2007
Microsoft Antigen 9 SP1 has shipped
We’ve just released an update to Microsoft Antigen 9.0. Antigen server-level antivirus, anti-spam,...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 11/27/2007
IT Forum Security Spotlight Panel
My IT Forum TV has published a nice 10 minute segment of the 60 minute security press conference we...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 11/16/2007
¡Hola de Barcelona!
We’ve had a great show in Barcelona. We announced our Forefront Server Security Management Console,...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 11/15/2007
How MSIT used a Power(ful) NAP to Improve Security Policy Compliance
Hot off the presses, Microsoft IT (aka MSIT) has published a case study around their use of Network...
Author: Ian Hameroff Date: 11/09/2007
Update on multi-engine scanning comparison
We have updated numbers from last month’s comparison of single-AV engines versus the multi-engine...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 11/06/2007
Forefront Client Security Update with Windows Firewall check
The Forefront Client Security Team writes: Today we published another Security State Assessment...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 10/30/2007
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...
Author: Ian Hameroff Date: 10/30/2007
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...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 10/26/2007
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...
Author: Ian Hameroff Date: 10/26/2007
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (January – June 2007) is Now Available
The new Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is out from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 10/24/2007
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...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 10/23/2007
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...
Author: tzink Date: 10/19/2007
The advantage of multiple anti-virus engines on server products
The Forefront server security products provide several key security capabilities to Exchange and...
Author: davidburt2000 Date: 10/19/2007