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Microsoft Forefront: Security Products for Business

The Microsoft Forefront family of business security products help provide greater protection and control over the security of your organisation’s network infrastructure.

Microsoft Forefront products easily integrate with each other, with the organisation’s IT
infrastructure, and can be supplemented through interoperable third-party solutions,
enabling end-to-end, defence-in-depth security solutions. Simplified management,
reporting, analysis and deployment enable more efficient protection of information resources as well as more secure access to applications and servers.



Design Tenets
Microsoft developed the Forefront family of business security products to address the challenges of widespread connectivity, evolving threats, fragmented solutions and operational difficulties. We believe that in order to address these challenges, any properly constituted security solutions must be comprehensive, integrated and simplified. These are the tenets around which all Forefront security products are designed.

• Comprehensive
  Customers are increasingly faced with more advanced application level attacks. Microsoft Forefront provides a comprehensive product line that protects information and controls access across your operating system, applications and servers, so that your business is secure from ever-changing threats.
• Integrated
  There is a proliferation of fragmented security point products working in isolation. Microsoft Forefront integrates security capabilities across the product line, with Microsoft server applications and with your existing IT infrastructure, so that you can achieve greater efficiency and control over the security of your network.
• Simplified
  Customers find it difficult to efficiently deploy and manage security products. Microsoft Forefront improves your ability to secure your organisation by simplifying the administration, deployment and use of security products, so that you can have greater confidence that your organisation is well protected.

What Microsoft Forefront customers say…

“...we have greater control over our security and are making estimated long-term cost savings on management time of about 85 per cent.”

James Hunter-Paterson, Network Administrator, Paul Smith
- Paul Smith is a leading designer clothes retailer and manufacturer. Its designs are wholesaled to 35 countries and sold through 14 shops in the UK, as well as outlets around the world.

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“Threats and vulnerabilities, especially from the Internet, are increasing all the time, but now we have a peace of mind that our consultants can drive new businesses opportunities without inadvertently infecting our network with malicious code.”

Ian Morris, IT Manager, Center Parcs
- Center Parcs provides short break holidays all year-round in themed, natural environments. It runs four holiday villages and between May 2003 and April 2004, 1.3 million people booked a Center Parcs break.

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“The software is easy to install and because of its pricing structure, the cost has been minimal per user, with virtually no additional overheads… I can honestly say since deploying [Forefront Security] we have had virtually no issues with email borne viruses or worms.”

Reed Elsevier
- Reed Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of information for professional users. Every year its four operating divisions produce more than 15,000 different magazines, books, CD ROMS, Internet-based data and information services.

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“After almost three years of using [Forefront Security], I can honestly say that not one virus or worm email attachment has reached any of our end-user desktops.”

Superdrug
- Superdrug Stores plc is a leading health and beauty retailer.