1. Business-Ready Security—Secure Collaboration Solution
Is Your Collaboration Infrastructure Secure?
In today’s collaborative environment, where remote workers, partners, and customers increasingly access organizational resources from beyond the
corporate network’s boundaries, it is difficult to protect sensitive information against threats. Businesses need to ensure that collaboration happens
securely and smoothly from multiple locations and devices. However, providing access to external users exposes sensitive data, so IT needs to control the
information exposed, reduce the risks of infection, exploitation, and misuse, reduce management overhead, and maintain compliance.
The challenge to provide secure collaboration that enables users to access information from nearly anywhere, share it with almost anyone, and get the
most out of the assets they have, is greater than ever.
Secure Collaboration Solution
Microsoft Forefront has brought together the essential capabilities needed to provide
an integrated solution to secure enterprise collaboration environments. The Secure
Collaboration solution enables business to collaborate more securely from virtually
any location or device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information.
Understanding that security is a means to a business end, Secure Collaboration, a part
of Microsoft’s Business-Ready Security, helps companies manage risks and empower
people with access to the information they need to get their jobs done.
IT administrators can enable more secure collaboration both within the enterprise
and with outside organizations by using standards-based and interoperable identity
sharing. With simplified management and reporting, businesses can implement
centralized control of collaboration security.
Protect Everywhere, Access Anywhere
The Secure Collaboration Solution enables seamless and more secure access to corporate
information, applications, and resources from nearly any location and device and helps
reduce the risk of unauthorized use and exposure of confidential information.
Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) provides a consolidated secure portal to
simplify remote access by non-Windows, down-level, or untrusted endpoints.
“We store lots of sensitive
Automatically protect sensitive documents stored in SharePoint document information in SharePoint libraries,
libraries and lists with Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
which can be selectively configured
providing persistent document-level encryption wherever it goes.
to apply rights protection
Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint integrates multiple scan engines to to documents when they’re
provide real-time protection against malware and other complex threats.
downloaded… Setting everything up
only took about five minutes.”
Christian Arpino,
IT Administrator
Windrush Frozen Foods Ltd.

2. Integrate and Extend Security Across the Enterprise “Forefront Security for SharePoint…
The Secure Collaboration solution extends collaboration to partners using standards- gives us an extra layer of protection for
based, interoperable identity sharing and deep integration with SharePoint Server, our SharePoint environment in ways
AD RMS, and Microsoft Office. that no other product can match. ”
Use Microsoft SharePoint Server to automatically protect sensitive documents
using AD RMS. Tom Booth
Integrates with AD FS to federate a single identity from one organization to Sr. Collaboration Engineer, SAS
another leveraging “claims” which describe identity attributes and can be used to
drive application and other system behaviors.
Federate AD RMS secure documents collaboration with outside organizations
using AD FS.
Open, standards-based interoperability with heterogeneous systems and partner
infrastructures helps unify infrastructure across the enterprise.
Simplify the Security Experience and Manage Compliance
The Secure Collaboration solution provides simplified management through a single console
with familiar, easy-to-use interfaces for defining policies and ensuring compliance.
Simplifies security management and provides improved visibility through a single “Access claims are arbitrated by digital
management console for configuring and viewing security state of collaboration tokens, which mean that users won’t
server security. necessarily need to supply Web sites
Native capabilities built into SharePoint provide simplified management of AD with personal information to conduct
RMS Policies, helping to integrate information protection at the source. transactions. ”
Information Weekly
April 2009
The Secure Collaboration solution is composed of an integrated line of protection, access and management
products, all built around users’ identities and integrated with the platform.
Multiple anti-malware scanning engines from Comprehensive, secure remote access
industry-leading security partners with file and to corporate resources for employees,
keyword filtering to provide comprehensive partners, and vendors on both managed
protection against the latest threats and unmanaged PCs and mobile devices
Persistent, identity-based encryption and usage Central console for simplifying the
policies to safeguard digital information from management of messaging and
Active Directory® Rights Management Services unauthorized use—both online and offline, collaboration application security
inside and outside of the corporate firewall
An open platform that provides simplified
access and single sign-on for on-premises and
Active Directory Federation Services 2.0
®
cloud-based applications in the enterprise,
across organizations, and on the Web
Learn more about the Secure Collaboration solution and download it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/en/us/secure-collaboration.aspx
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