Now Available – Antigen 9.0 Service Packs

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:05:53 Z

Microsoft announced today the release of Antigen for Exchange with Antigen Spam Manager 9.0 with Service Pack 2 and Antigen for SMTP Gateways with Antigen Spam Manager 9.0 with Service Pack 2 which include visibility of all actively published engines, alerts and notifications for new engine availability, improved anti-spam detection through integration of the Cloudmark engine, and a rollup of software fixes.

These releases introduce technology that will notify customers of engine changes – including the addition or elimination of engines – and allow administrators to update their engine configurations without having to deploy any new product updates. This update allows customers to accommodate engine changes effortlessly, helping maintain the high level of security provided in the Antigen and Forefront server security products.

As with previous releases of Forefront Antigen, the SP2 releases provide a multi-engine protection approach for superior detection of the latest threats when compared to single engine solutions. In fact, AV-Test.org has tested our products with competitors and found our detection rates have an average response time of 3-6 hours for new viruses. In contrast, competitive single-engine solutions average response times are more than 2-9 days.

Microsoft continually monitors antivirus engine quality and detection rates using internal and 3^rd party independent testing organizations. Testing for the last several years has indicated that using more than five malware engines concurrently does not improve overall detection rates. In order to develop stronger technology relationships with our antimalware partners and ensure continued customer value for the longer term, we are making available a set of five antimalware engines, with confidence that this solution will continue to offer industry leading detection rates and response times.

As an example of Microsoft’s commitment to continual improvement of our malware detection leadership, we are investing in new antispam technology through a partnership with Cloudmark that will provide an overall better antispam experience including higher detection rates, lower false positives, and improved submission and service experience. The Cloudmark engine is now included in latest service pack releases of Antigen for Exchange with Antigen Spam Manager 9.0 and Antigen for SMTP Gateways with Antigen Spam Manager 9.0 products as Beta while it undergoes customer trials. Upon the near term completion of the customer trials, it will be released by Microsoft for both the Antigen 9.0 products, as well as be included in the next generation releases of Forefront server security products later this year. More information is available on the Antimalware Engine Notifications and Developments (AMEND) TechNet page.

For more information on latest Antigen 9.0 service pack and engine revisions, please visit the AMEND page.

Now Available – Antigen 9.0 Service Packs

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:25:52 Z

How long will it be before it is released for MSVL customers to download?

Now Available – Antigen 9.0 Service Packs

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:14:30 Z

Is it also possible to download this via msdn subscriber downloads?

Rgds

Now Available – Antigen 9.0 Service Packs

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:07:27 Z

Its already availabe in MVLS.

Raymond Mo | MCSA 2003: Messaging | MCITP: EA and SA | ITIL v3 Foundation Certified.