14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has welcomed its positioning in the Leaders quadrant for 2006 E-Mail Security Boundary Magic Quadrant published by market analyst Gartner Inc. The Redmond Company has accessed the Leaders quadrant following evaluations of services and products such as Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services and Forefront Security for Exchange Server.
"We are delighted to be placed in the "Leaders" quadrant by Gartner because we believe it is validation of our commitment to delivering leading e-mail security products and services," said Andy Lees, corporate vice president of Server and Tools Marketing at Microsoft. "Our work in e-mail security is an integral part of our broader security strategy and our overall commitment to helping customers protect information and control access to their IT infrastructure."
Gartner's representation of the email security marketplace mirrors the company's analysis of the market based on a given set of criteria and standards, and although it delivers no actual guarantee of the products and services associated with members of the Leaders quadrant, it does hint as to their quality.
"Microsoft's current enterprise e-mail security gateway offering includes the Exchange Hosted Services line, which features e-mail filtering, archiving, encryption and recovery. Forefront Security for Exchange Server is the next generation of Microsoft Antigen for Exchange, which was released to market in early June. Both versions feature a multiple scan engine approach to provide layered protection for Exchange Server 2007 against the latest viruses, worms and spam. Forefront Security for Exchange Server is in public beta and scheduled for release at the end of 2006 or in early 2007," revealed Microsoft.