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Microsoft Shows New Firewall Beta
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-02-10
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Microsoft's been putting out some eye candy leading up to next week's RSA Conference. They opened the shades on their new ISA 2006 firewall public beta and threw in some new Client Protection and Antigen for Exchange early customer betas for bling-bling.
The ISA 2006 will offer new support for SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services, LDAP-based smart-card authentication, vender support for multifactor authentication and Radius servers.
Ted Kummert, corporate vice president for Security, Access and Solutions, said, "ISA Server 2006 is key to Microsoft's security product strategy at the network edge and part of our commitment to provide secure-anywhere access to corporate applications and data. Like previous versions, ISA Server 2006 integrates the strength of an application layer firewall with VPN, proxy and Web-caching functionalities. It provides enhanced security by integrating with the Microsoft Windows application infrastructure. And we've built in deployment and management tools to reduce our customers' costs and simplify their user experience.
Through its tool set for publishing Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint Servers, ISA Server 2006 enables businesses to provide employees and partners with more secure remote access to business applications from PCs or mobile devices. The combined firewall, VPN and Web-caching capabilities of ISA Server 2006 enable businesses to more securely connect remote branch offices to their corporate headquarters, while providing fast Internet access from branch offices. ISA Server 2006 provides a single solution with common management infrastructure and a common set of tools and user interfaces as well as a wide array of partner appliance solutions to further simplify deployment across organizations."
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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