Marketing description

Security and management have traditionally existed as two separate disciplines, yet both play a central role in keeping your users safe and productive. Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection allows you to consolidate desktop security and management in a single solution.

Key selling points

• Fuel productivity
• Best choice for Windows
• Enterprise-strength management
• Foundation for growth

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.