Microsoft Forefront - Secure Collaboration Solution Datasheet
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The document discusses Microsoft's Secure Collaboration solution which provides secure access to corporate information and resources from any location. It addresses the challenge of enabling collaboration while protecting sensitive data from unauthorized access and threats. The solution includes Forefront Unified Access Gateway for secure remote access, Active Directory Rights Management Services for persistent document encryption, and Forefront Protection for SharePoint for malware protection. It also simplifies management through a single console and integrates identity sharing and compliance capabilities.
Microsoft Forefront - Secure Collaboration Solution Datasheet
- 1. Business-Ready Security—Secure Collaboration Solution Is Your Collaboration Infrastructure Secure? In today’s collaborative environment, where remote workers, partners, and customers increasingly access organizational resources from beyond the corporate network’s boundaries, it is difficult to protect sensitive information against threats. Businesses need to ensure that collaboration happens securely and smoothly from multiple locations and devices. However, providing access to external users exposes sensitive data, so IT needs to control the information exposed, reduce the risks of infection, exploitation, and misuse, reduce management overhead, and maintain compliance. The challenge to provide secure collaboration that enables users to access information from nearly anywhere, share it with almost anyone, and get the most out of the assets they have, is greater than ever. Secure Collaboration Solution Microsoft Forefront has brought together the essential capabilities needed to provide an integrated solution to secure enterprise collaboration environments. The Secure Collaboration solution enables business to collaborate more securely from virtually any location or device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information. Understanding that security is a means to a business end, Secure Collaboration, a part of Microsoft’s Business-Ready Security, helps companies manage risks and empower people with access to the information they need to get their jobs done. IT administrators can enable more secure collaboration both within the enterprise and with outside organizations by using standards-based and interoperable identity sharing. With simplified management and reporting, businesses can implement centralized control of collaboration security. Protect Everywhere, Access Anywhere The Secure Collaboration Solution enables seamless and more secure access to corporate information, applications, and resources from nearly any location and device and helps reduce the risk of unauthorized use and exposure of confidential information. Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) provides a consolidated secure portal to simplify remote access by non-Windows, down-level, or untrusted endpoints. “We store lots of sensitive Automatically protect sensitive documents stored in SharePoint document information in SharePoint libraries, libraries and lists with Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) which can be selectively configured providing persistent document-level encryption wherever it goes. to apply rights protection Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint integrates multiple scan engines to to documents when they’re provide real-time protection against malware and other complex threats. downloaded… Setting everything up only took about five minutes.” Christian Arpino, IT Administrator Windrush Frozen Foods Ltd.
- 2. Integrate and Extend Security Across the Enterprise “Forefront Security for SharePoint… The Secure Collaboration solution extends collaboration to partners using standards- gives us an extra layer of protection for based, interoperable identity sharing and deep integration with SharePoint Server, our SharePoint environment in ways AD RMS, and Microsoft Office. that no other product can match. ” Use Microsoft SharePoint Server to automatically protect sensitive documents using AD RMS. Tom Booth Integrates with AD FS to federate a single identity from one organization to Sr. Collaboration Engineer, SAS another leveraging “claims” which describe identity attributes and can be used to drive application and other system behaviors. Federate AD RMS secure documents collaboration with outside organizations using AD FS. Open, standards-based interoperability with heterogeneous systems and partner infrastructures helps unify infrastructure across the enterprise. Simplify the Security Experience and Manage Compliance The Secure Collaboration solution provides simplified management through a single console with familiar, easy-to-use interfaces for defining policies and ensuring compliance. Simplifies security management and provides improved visibility through a single “Access claims are arbitrated by digital management console for configuring and viewing security state of collaboration tokens, which mean that users won’t server security. necessarily need to supply Web sites Native capabilities built into SharePoint provide simplified management of AD with personal information to conduct RMS Policies, helping to integrate information protection at the source. transactions. ” Information Weekly April 2009 The Secure Collaboration solution is composed of an integrated line of protection, access and management products, all built around users’ identities and integrated with the platform. Multiple anti-malware scanning engines from Comprehensive, secure remote access industry-leading security partners with file and to corporate resources for employees, keyword filtering to provide comprehensive partners, and vendors on both managed protection against the latest threats and unmanaged PCs and mobile devices Persistent, identity-based encryption and usage Central console for simplifying the policies to safeguard digital information from management of messaging and Active Directory® Rights Management Services unauthorized use—both online and offline, collaboration application security inside and outside of the corporate firewall An open platform that provides simplified access and single sign-on for on-premises and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 ® cloud-based applications in the enterprise, across organizations, and on the Web Learn more about the Secure Collaboration solution and download it at: http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/en/us/secure-collaboration.aspx © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, the Microsoft logo, Forefront, Windows, Windows Server, all Forefront products, and Active Directory Rights Management Services are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. This document is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT.