Microsoft prepares Forefront for May release
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Microsoft will ship its long-awaited Forefront Client Security product--a managed security solution for enterprises--in "the next month or so," according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Forefront has been in development for four years and in active beta testing for the past year. "We do live in a world in which the bad guys, so to speak, are also getting smarter all the time, and it is important to be able to lock the core infrastructure, and then protect around it in a way that is a bit more dynamic," Ballmer said during a keynote address at the Microsoft Security & Management Seminar in Amsterdam. "So we are, with our Forefront line of products, entering the security business."