Re: ISA Server for Microsoft Exchange

[Chris Edwards <chris () ENG GLA AC UK>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Rowe, Ken wrote:

| ISA is the Microsoft application-level firewall that enforces a
| black-listing approach to block access to inappropriate sites. This can
| help protect Microsoft Exchange users from phishing attacks if they
| click on embedded links.

Hi,

Yep - ISA can operate as a web filter, to restrict which external websites
your on-campus users can access.  Think blocking porn etc.

But in this context, ISA is deployed to protect a local exchange server
from malicious incoming external traffic, whilst hopefully allowing good
external traffic to come in.

In other words, acting not as a regular web proxy, but as a reverse proxy.
(with application level filtering).


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Chris Edwards
IT Security, Computing Service
University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401