RELEASE: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 RTMs

Posted by: kurtsh | December 16, 2010

RELEASE: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 RTMs

And “Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010” (FEP2010), the successor to “Forefront Client Security” (FCS) has released to manufacturing.

Forefront Endpoint Protection is our “v2.0” version of our Antivirus/Anti-malware product for the Enterprise and includes some phenomenal improvements over our already excellent FCS product – which had won acclaim as one of the top 3 antivirus products by such evaluators as AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, and VB100 certifications.

Here’s some past posts about Microsoft’s excellence in Antivirus technology:

NEWS: Microsoft’s free “Security Essentials” beats Symantec head-to-head… YET AGAIN.
https://kurtsh.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/news-microsoft%e2%80%99s-free-%e2%80%9csecurity-essentials%e2%80%9d-beats-symantec-head-to-head%e2%80%a6-yet-again/
NEWS: CERN replaces Symantec with Microsoft Forefront Client Security
https://kurtsh.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/news-cern-replaces-symantec-with-microsoft-forefront-client-security/
INFO: Forefront Client Security surges past McAfee, TrendMicro, NOD32, Sophos
https://kurtsh.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/info-forefront-client-security-surges-past-mcafee-trendmicro-nod32-sophos/
NEWS: Microsoft tops latest AV-Comparatives’ testing (05/2009)
https://kurtsh.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/news-microsoft-tops-latest-av-comparatives-testing-052009/

Here’s the announcement of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010’s release:

We are extremely excited to announce that Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) has released to manufacturing! Customers can access the RTM release on the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) starting Jan. 1, 2011 — or try the evaluation version immediately.

This is our first – and very significant – step in making the convergence of desktop security and management a reality. Customers using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 can now quickly and efficiently deploy, configure, manage, update, and report on FEP protections, helping to lower infrastructure costs and improve overall security. And since both products are included in the Enterprise CAL (ECAL), customers who purchase ECAL automatically get access to all the licenses they need to implement the solution. To make deployment easier, FEP will even identify and replace the existing antimalware agents you may have previously installed.

Customers have already begun seeing the advantages of bringing together powerful antimalware protection with their existing infrastructure for deploying, patching, and updating client systems. A large university medical center that participated in our Technology Adoption Program (TAP) said the following about their experience using FEP in their 50,000 desktop environment:

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