Microsoft launches ISA server '04 edition of firewall offering

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd has announced the availability of the
Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 Enterprise Edition.
According to the company, in addition to enhanced mana-geability, scalability
and availability features to better maximize the returns on security
infrastructure invest-ments, the product offers improved authentication
services, strengthened data protection features and allows faster remote access
to information. ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition is available through all
Microsoft channel partners.

ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition provides protection for critical business
scenarios, such as more-secure remote access to Microsoft Exchange servers
through Outlook Web Access and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. ISA Server 2004
Enterprise Edition also enables centralized management, enforce consistent
firewall policies across the enterprise, increase speed and availability of Web
content, balance network resources, centralize monitoring and storage and
scalability through unlimited SMP and NLB. Commenting on the launch, Saurabh
Misra, Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft India said, "Historically,
firewalls have been very difficult to configure and implement. ISA Server 2004's
user interface and wizard functionality allows companies that lack dedicated
security resources to easily create a locked down, hardened infrastructure that
protects against the new generation of threats. Microsoft has done for firewall
technology what previously only existed in hardware-based firewalls."

"Manageability is the other big thing. Whether a business has 50,
hundreds or thousands of ISA Servers, they can manage the entire environment
more easily with the enterprise edition," he added.

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