14 DAY TRIAL // Following the release to manufacturing of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, Microsoft is now offering two solutions designed to make the company’s vision of Secure Collaboration a reality. Earlier today, you were able to read about the release to web of Active Directory Federation Services 2.0. But AD FS 2.0 is just a part of the Secure Collaboration, with Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint RTM also playing a critical role, according to the software giant.
“The new Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0) provide essential building blocks for a Secure Collaboration solution. They also represent great progress for what we call our Business Ready Security strategy to help enterprise customers manage risk and enable productivity,” a member of the Forefront team revealed.
While the RTW Build of Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 became available for download, Microsoft released to manufacturing Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint. The promise from the Redmond company is that Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint integrates seamlessly with SharePoint Server 2010, security collaboration and sharing processes within an organization. Essentially, the security solution is designed to stop employees from uploading or downloading infected files, or deal with inappropriate, or even access sensitive information.
“Collaboration is a key engine for success, regardless of which industry or part of the world you’re in. And, whether its deployed on-premises or as hosted cloud service, the new SharePoint 2010 is the ideal business collaboration platform to connect people within the enterprise and beyond,” the Forefront team representative added. “Of course, ensuring valuable information is safe against accidental loss, theft and malicious software is no trivial exercise in the world of cloud computing and cross-company collaboration. Information is the lifeblood of any organization and it must be secured.”
Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint is available for download here. Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 is available for download here.