ISA SERVER BREAKS SECURITY GROUND.

Nowadays, concepts such as firewalls, VPNs and intrusion detection systems are old hat for security professionals-just as concepts like server publication and Internet caches are well understood by network engineers.What makes the Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server from Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) groundbreaking is that it can do it all. There are many vendors out there that attempt to merge previously disparate technologies and end up with a product that fails on all fronts. Has Microsoft truly been able to create a product that can offer all of these services and still be an effective security tool? We decided to find out.

Published: Jan 07, 2001
Updated: Oct 28, 2002
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Company: ISAserver.org
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