Microsoft Tuesday launched a line of enterprise e-mail security products for its Exchange server software as the company’s first venture into corporate security since it bought Sybari Software 16 months ago. Three renamed and reworked products — Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and Antigen Spam Manager — rely on multiple scanning engines from Ahnlab, Authentium, Computer Associates, Kaspersky Labs, MailFilters, Norman Data Defense Systems, Sophos, and VirusBuster to sniff out malware and\/or spam either at the perimeter edge (Antigen for SMTP Gateways) or inside the network at the Exchange server itself (Antigen for Exchange, Antigen Spam Manager). A three-pack, dubbed Antigen Messaging Security Suite, includes all the components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Microsoft will also debut the Antigen Enterprise Manager, a central console to control and report on the Antigen-branded defenses — but not third-party products — and will give away an add-on to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 that monitors the products as well as notifies administrators and alerts users of malware and spam activity.<\/p>\n
This is the second major security product unwrapped in the past week. Last Tuesday, Microsoft launched its consumer security subscription service, Windows Live OneCare.<\/p>\n
Licari ticked off the new and improved features of the scanning components, suite, and console. Among them: support for server clusters, digitally-signed signature updates that have been vetted by Microsoft (which pulls them from the various scan engine providers), and stored configuration and update data for rapid restart when a server goes down.<\/p>\n
Romania-based GeCAD, which was bought in 2003, also provided the core of Microsoft’s OneCare anti-virus protection. “This is the first time that we’ve used GeCAD in a corporate environment.”<\/p>\n
Characterizing the Antigen messaging security family as “another option for companies,” Pawlak noted that some enterprises will turn to Microsoft for anti-virus and anti-spam scanning. <\/p>\n
And then there’s the anti-Microsoft anxieties that some companies suffer. “Companies, especially very large companies, don’t want a single vendor providing both the OS, or in this case the OS of the mail server, as well as security,” MacDermott claimed.<\/p>\n
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