Microsoft is offering an update version of the Cloud-based flavor of its security solution for Exchange Server. At the end of the past week, the refreshed variant of Forefront Online Protection for Exchange became available to customers currently leveraging the company Cloud services. Forefront Online Protection for Exchange is designed as a service offering protection for Exchange environments, be them on premise or also in the Cloud. Delivered under the Microsoft Online Services umbrella, FOPE is positioned as an alternative to the Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server.

The difference of course, lies in the way that customers can access the offering. In this sense, FOPE is a hosted security solution, essentially a service that comes to the table with both anti-malware and anti-spam protection. At the same time, FOPE can be used in concert with Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server, in order to provide additional security to Exchange environments.

“The new release of Forefront Online Protection for Exchange offers enhanced policy control capabilities (such as enhanced regular expressions support, custom dictionaries) for IT admins to more effectively adhere to compliance needs. In addition, it supports advanced globalization/localization by supporting 13 languages in the Admin Con... (read more)