Microsoft details ‘Stirling’ integrated suite

Comprehensive security product promised in next-gen Forefront.

Microsoft

, whose

Forefront

corporate anti-malware system is the latest step in a continuing onslaught on the security market, has unveiled early details of the next step in its development, a broad and integrated system code-named ‘Stirling’.

The ‘Stirling’ project, due to be revealed in an early beta later this year, promises a wide range of security measures bundled together, including firewalls, NAC and IPS alongside virus, trojan and spyware detection and protection at desktop, server and gateway levels. It is described as including ‘next-generation versions of Forefront Client Security, Server Security and Edge Security and Access solutions, plus a unified management console’.

The product will cement

Microsoft

‘s moves to provide a full corporate range to compete with those offered by the established players in the market, currently led by

Symantec

,

McAfee

and

Trend Micro

, with

Sophos

,

Panda

,

F-Secure

and

CA

close behind (according to last year’s


Gartner

study

.

A ‘Q&A’ style summary of the plans can be found

here

.

Posted on 07 June 2007 by

Virus Bulletin