MS forefront comparison to MS ISA for App layer defense

I should go through a discussion about MS forefront and MS ISA. May be it can help you to understand the difference between this both. You can keep dipper view the features of ms forefront highlighting features I given below.

Suppose, we are in a way to use MS forefront TMG ( Threat management gateway) 2010. It can serves you with it’s multiple layers of continuing updated protection like-

URL filtering,                                                                                                                                                                               Anti malware inspection,                                                                                                                                                             Intrusion prevention,                                                                                                                                                       Application  proxy and

Also it serves you HTTP/HTTPS inspections. It can reducing your cost of web security.

Now I’m going to discuss a little bit about MS ISA.

Actually ISA (Internet security and acceleration) work as a layer defender and also it’s a inspector of firewall. It protect your networks from several threats for anytime. Visit this site for more-

http://www.isaserver.org/articles-tutorials/articles/White-Paper-Why-ISA-2006-Better-Solution-than-ISA-2000-2004.html

Hope you may now reached a decision about the both.

Microsoft Forefront is a business security software created by Microsoft. It is a family or group of business security applications that are designed to protect a business or organization’s network servers, and or computer networks like for example the Microsoft SharePoint Server, the Microsoft Exchange Server, and other individual devices as well. Microsoft Forefront, as a group, is composed of several other products and they are:

For protection and access:

• Forefront Endpoint Protection
• Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
• Forefront Security for Office Communications Server
• Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
• Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint
• Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010
• Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010

For management:

• Forefront Server Security Management Console
• Forefront Identity Manager 2010

For platform:

• Active Directory Federation Services
• Active Directory Certificate Services
• Active Directory Rights Management Services
• Active Directory Domain Services
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services

The Microsoft ISA Server is also known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server and is included in the Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010. This is also another product under Microsoft Forefront. For more information about Microsoft ISA Server or to know the system requirements on Microsoft ISA Server 2006, you may visit TechNet – Microsoft® Forefront | Products | Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server.