Marketing description

Desktop management and security have traditionally existed as two separate disciplines. Yet both play a central role in keeping users safe and productive. Management ensures proper system configuration, deploys patches against vulnerabilities, and delivers necessary security updates. Security provides critical threat detection, outbreak response, and system remediation.
Forefront Endpoint Protection enables businesses to align security and management to improve endpoint protection while greatly reducing operational costs. This shared infrastructure helps reduce ownership costs while providing improved visibility and control over endpoint management and security.

Key selling points

• Creates single administrator experience for managing and securing endpoints
• Improves visibility for identifying and remediating potentially vulnerable endpoints
• Lowers ownership costs by using a single infrastructure for both endpoint management and security
• Deploys effortlessly to hundreds of thousands of endpoints using existing System Center Configuration Manager agents
• Provides highly accurate detection of known and unknown threats
• Actively protects against network-level attacks by managing Windows Firewall configurations

Product features

• Central policy creation
  Administrators have a central location for creating and applying all endpoint-related policies.
• Improved visibility
  With a shared view of endpoint protection and configuration, administrators can more easily identify and remediate vulnerable computers.
• Automated agent replacement
  Forefront Endpoint Protection automatically detects and removes the most common endpoint security agents, dramatically lowering the time and effort needed to deploy the protection.
• Single infrastructure
  Forefront Endpoint Protection uses the Configuration Manager infrastructure for deploying and managing endpoint protection. It also eliminates the expense of purchasing and maintaining an independent security infrastructure.
• Enterprise scalability
  Using the Configuration Manager infrastructure, Forefront Endpoint Protection clients and policies can be efficiently deployed to hundreds of thousands of users.
• Highly accurate detection
  Forefront Endpoint Protection protects against the latest malware and rootkits with low false positives.
• Behavior monitoring
  Forefront Endpoint Protection detects system behavior and file reputation data to identify unknown threats.
• Vulnerability shielding
  Forefront Endpoint Protection blocks exploitation of endpoint vulnerabilities with deep protocol analysis of network traffic.
• Efficient scanning
  Forefront Endpoint Protection keeps employees productive with low performance impact scanning.
• Client firewall management
  Forefront Endpoint Protection helps administrators centrally manage Windows Firewall protections across the enterprise.