Microsoft has launched two enhancements to its security offerings
Microsoft has launched two enhancements to its security offerings and revealed a strategy shift that could further shake up the competition in the antivirus sector.
The company made the second beta of its Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) available for download. This follows its release of Forefront Security for Exchange Server Service Pack 1 (SP1).
Microsoft announced Beta 2 of TMG in a blog by Bill Jensen, senior product manager for TMG.
The product will focus on Web security and Microsoft is positioning TMG to possibly replace antivirus packages from other vendors in the enterprise.
“With TMG customers can continue working with existing antivirus vendors, but they can consolidate their AV products by replacing them with TMG if they want,” Jensen said.
But TMG’s threat goes beyond that — together with Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1, it provides a large security blanket. “Threat Management Gateway protects virtual private networks and traffic coming into the company, while Forefront Security for Exchange Server protects e-mails,” Don Retallack, research vice president at Directions on Microsoft, which focuses solely on Microsoft, told InternetNews.com.