Re: Microsoft Forefront

["Harry E Flowers (flowers)" <flowers () MEMPHIS EDU>]

I can't speak to the desktop product, but Forefront Security for Exchange is basically  Sybari Antigen for Exchange 
2007  (Microsoft bought Sybari, and you can still buy Antigen for Exchange 2003 from Microsoft).  Antigen was perhaps 
the best AV available for Exchange servers (Trend Micro also had a good product).  You can use various scan engines 
(Sophos is one, Kaspersky another) with it, so you get virus definitions from several good vendors.  We are currently 
using Forefront Security for Exchange 2007.

Supposedly, the Forefront Client Security is an expansion of the server-based product to a desktop environment for file 
scanning (something Sybari didn't offer).  If it works similarly, I would expect it to be pretty good as far as 
catching viruses with multiple scan engines.  Since I haven't tried it, I can't say how well it was implemented "in 
real life".
--
Harry Flowers
Manager, Systems Software
Information Technology Division
The University of Memphis


From: Consolvo, Corbett D [mailto:corbett.consolvo () TXSTATE EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:47 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Microsoft Forefront

I am interested in any specific technical experiences regarding use of Microsoft Forefront for desktops or Exchange 
2007.

Things I am most interested in:
Has anyone had it actually miss any major malware (or, at least in any larger numbers than any other one product)
Brief descriptions of any experience with centralized management, ease of deployment and such
End user experience versus other major products (McAfee, Symantec, Sophos, etc)

Thanks,
Corbett Consolvo
Texas State University
Information Security Analyst