1. Help securely enable business by managing risk and empowering people
Businesses must balance the need for increased
collaboration and access to corporate information
and resources with the need for strong IT
security. To compound matters, the evolving
threat landscape makes it harder for businesses
to address this tension between protection and
increased access.
In this environment, the challenge is greater than
ever to increase productivity, grow sales, retain
customers, reduce costs, adapt to change, and
mitigate risks.
Business Ready Security
In response to these business challenges and opportunities, Integrate and Extend Security across the Enterprise
Microsoft’s approach—called Business Ready Security—is Forefront products enable you to extend security across the
centered on the recognition that security is a means to a enterprise through integration with your existing Microsoft
business end. We want security to help companies achieve their infrastructure and support for most heterogeneous environments
business goals while managing risk and empowering people and third party applications. This integration and support
with access to the information they need to get their jobs done. enhances the value of your existing IT investments:
Microsoft takes a broad view of security. We believe an • Open, standards-based protocol interoperability
effective strategy needs to encompass protection, access and • Extends beyond on-premise infrastructure to the cloud
management, all built around user identity and integrated • Backed by global resources from Microsoft and partners
with a highly secure, interoperable platform. This notion of • Simplify the Security Experience, Manage Compliance
integrated, identity-aware security is central to our efforts, as it • Forefront simplifies the overall security experience from
helps us deliver a contextual and user-centric security solution development and deployment to administration, visibility,
that is aligned to the needs of our customers. and support. Centralized monitoring and reporting
through a familiar and easy interface helps simplify
Protect Everywhere, Access Anywhere management so that enterprises can more efficiently
Microsoft Forefront delivers a comprehensive, user-centric secure their environments:
security solution to help businesses protect their assets • Simplified deployment through flexible options and easy
everywhere through a defense-in-depth approach: configuration
• Enable real-time, in-depth reporting of threats,
• Identity-centric protection across multiple layers vulnerabilities, and configuration risks
• Secure access from almost any location or device • Empower users through self-service capabilities while
• Scale across physical, virtual, and cloud environments administrators are managing systems, protecting data, and
controlling access
“Information security today suffers from a proliferation of unconnected point products, creating unnecessary
complexity and cost. With a shift to targeted and financially motivated attacks on information, the challenges
of managing risk and compliance, and the need for businesses to collaborate both internally and externally,
information security needs to move to integrated, identity-aware, adaptive security systems that support
business initiatives instead of blocking them.” - Neil MacDonald, VP and Gartner Fellow

2. Business Ready Security Solutions Customers Are Seeing Value Today
The next generation of Microsoft Forefront security products
will be brought to market through a comprehensive set of five Energy Firm Tightens
solutions as part of the Business Ready Security strategy. These Protection, Simplifies
solutions align strongly with customer needs to secure key IT Work using Business
workloads and infrastructure deployments while enhancing the Ready Security Solutions
value of current and planned IT investments and helping to
maximize return on investment. Problem: NuStar Energy, a crude-oil transportation and storage
company that has grown rapidly since its creation in 2001,
Secure Messaging enables more secure business needed to update and expand its security infrastructure to gain a
communication from virtually anywhere and on virtually any comprehensive, integrated set of management, monitoring, identity,
device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential and security software that would minimize IT work and maximize
information. protection.
Secure Collaboration enables more secure business Solution: NuStar used their Enterprise CAL to obtain Microsoft
collaboration from virtually anywhere and across devices, while Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server,
preventing unauthorized use of confidential information. and Forefront Security for SharePoint, and added Identity Lifecycle
Manager 2007.
Secure Endpoint protects client and server operating systems
from emerging threats and information loss, while enabling Benefits:
more secure access from virtually anywhere. • More thorough protection against security risks
• Downtime reduced by 450 hours annually
Information Protection discovers, protects, and manages • Improved compliance
confidential data throughout your business with a • Simplified management saves $200,000 annually
comprehensive solution integrated with the computing platform
and applications.
Identity and Access Management enables more secure, “With Microsoft business-ready security solutions,
identity-based access to applications on-premises and in the
we’re confident that we have a security infrastructure
cloud from virtually any location or device
that will protect our assets without eating up a lot of
IT management time. We’re saving two to four hours
Take the Next Step of lost productivity per incursion, which adds up to
about 450 hours annually.”
• Learn about our business ready security solutions
at http://www.microsoft.com/forefront - Robert Amos, Manager of Infrastructure Systems, NuStar
• Download trial versions of Forefront products at
http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/trial
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