ForeFront Security for Exchange Server 2007

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server includes multiple scan engines from industry-leading security firms integrated in a single solution to help protect your Exchange messaging environments from viruses, worms, and spam. It ships with and integrates multiple industry-leading antivirus engines to provide comprehensive, layered protection against the latest threats. Through deep integration with Exchange Server, scanning innovations, and performance controls, Forefront Security for Exchange Server helps protect messaging environments while maintaining uptime and optimizing server performance. Forefront Security for Exchange Server also enables administrators to easily manage configuration and operation, automated scan engine signature updates, and reporting at the server and enterprise level.
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Microsoft Antigen server-level antivirus, anti-spam, and content-filtering products are part of the Microsoft Forefront Security product family.
Antigen helps businesses protect Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange Server 2003 with a layered, and multiple scan engine approach. Antigen products help stop the latest threats before they impact businesses and users. Scanning and management innovations — along with tight integration with Microsoft Exchange — maximize administrator control and server availability. Content and file filtering technologies help ensure that organizations can eliminate inappropriate language and dangerous attachments from internal and external communications.

Antigen benefits include:

Advanced Protection: Multiple scan engines at multiple layers throughout the e-mail infrastructure provide improved protection against e-mail threats.

Availability and Control: Tight integration with Microsoft Exchange and Windows-based SMTP servers maximizes availability and management control.

Secure Content: Helps organizations eliminate inappropriate language and dangerous attachments from internal and external communications.

Additional Standard Scan Engine: The Microsoft Antivirus engine, developed by the Microsoft anti-malware team, is now a standard Antigen engine, providing all Antigen customers with an additional layer of protection.

Enhanced Cluster Support: Antigen configuration data and scan engine signature files are now associated with a Microsoft Exchange Virtual Server (EVS), so nodes do not need to be configured separately and both active and passive nodes will have the most up-to-date configuration information and signatures.

Secure Signature Updates: All signature updates for all nine scan engines are digitally signed by Microsoft to ensure secure, uncorrupt delivery to customers.
Multiple Update Paths: Antigen can now be configured with redundant update paths to ensure successful scan engine and signature file updates if primary network connections are not functioning properly.

Administrator Notification Enhancements: Antigen now provides administrators with greater flexibility through new customized notifications for Spam/RBL (real-time blackhole lists), content, sender/subject line filters, and quarantine database alerts.

Microsoft Security Design Lifecycle: Antigen e-mail security products have all completed Microsoft’s Security Design Lifecycle review, ensuring that Antigen meets Microsoft’s high standards for secure code development.