Forefront

With the constant threat of viruses, spam, and other malware, your customers want advanced security solutions that integrate with existing infrastructures. Microsoft Forefront enables you to offer your customers solutions that are simple to set up and help guard their systems against attack.

Opportunity

Forefront delivers business ready security to help companies achieve business goals and manage risk, while helping ensure the right people always have access to the information they need. Here are just a few of the types of customers you should be talking to about Forefront:

Customers wanting to increase security for Windows PCs, laptops, and servers
Forefront provides unified protection from viruses, spyware, and other current and emerging threats. It delivers clear visibility and control of malware threats through security reports and summary dashboard views
Customers seeking better protection for on-premise and hosted email collaboration
Antivirus, antispam, and content-filtering products protect email and collaboration environments against viruses, spam and inappropriate content, as well as in-the-cloud malware and spam detection, which blocks threats before they reach the network
Customers who want to reduce up-front and ongoing security costs
Forefront enables cost-effective deployment of defence-in-depth security; delivering superior value over purchasing individual products. By detecting and removing spam while it’s still in the cloud it dramatically reduces the amount of incoming network traffic, enabling a better use of bandwidth.

Business benefits

Forefront provides comprehensive IT infrastructure security for Windows-based desktop PCs, laptops, and servers, and for messaging and collaboration platforms; enabling customers to:

Integrate and extend security across the enterprise
Windows Identity Foundation helps .NET developers build claims-aware applications that externalise user authentication from the application, improving developer productivity, enhancing application security, and enabling interoperability. Active Directory Rights Management Services help augment security strategy by protecting information through persistent usage policies, which remain with the information no matter where it is moved
Help protect everywhere, access anywhere
Forefront delivers comprehensive, end-to-end solutions, both on-premises and in the cloud, to help protect and enable secure access virtually everywhere
Simplify security and manage compliance
Working to securely manage information across multiple users, endpoints, and servers while maintaining compliance can be complex and costly for your customers; Forefront solutions integrate with existing environments to enable easier deployment, centralised reporting across multiple systems, and management of users and information from a single view.

Expand your sales with…

Forefront is just one part of the Microsoft solution allowing you to expand every sale of this product by adding a variety of other Microsoft offerings:

Office 2010 - Forefront offers a comprehensive solution for managing identities, credentials, and identity-based access policies. It empowers users with self service password reset and embeds self-help tools in Office so users can manage routine aspects of identity and access; giving IT professionals rich administrative tools and enhanced automation.
SharePoint 2010 - Help customers protect their collaboration environments against viruses, inappropriate content and documents containing malicious code with Forefront. Integrating multiple scan engines Forefront provides comprehensive protection, optimised server performance and simplified management for SharePoint environments.