Posts Tagged ‘Threat Management Gateway’

February 18 2010

Security event at Qatar, February 17

Microsoft Qatar did a Security event yesterday at the Four Seasons Hotel, Doha. We started off with an enthusiastic audience of 70+ people.

We kicked off with a presentation on Microsoft Business Ready Security by good ol’ David Maskell, Security SSP – Microsoft Gulf, followed by technical demos.

Fadel Lubbos, Senior Consultant from Information & Communication [...]

February 6 2010

“RPC Server is unavailable” error when requesting a certificate

While trying to request a certificate using the Certificates MMC snap-in on a computer running ISA Server, Threat Management Gateway (TMG) or Unified Access Gateway (UAG), you may encounter the following error:
“The RPC Server is unavailable”

This may be caused due to the RPC Filter in ISA Server/TMG. The RPC filter ensures security by monitoring RPC [...]

January 19 2010

Forefront Technology Webcast

Description
You may have already heard about the Secure Messaging, Secure Endpoint, Secure Collaboration, Identity & Access Management and Information Protection solutions which are a part of Forefront’s Business Ready Security.
NOW, you can dive deep (300 level) into the new Forefront products which are a part of those solutions.  Hear from and ask questions directly to [...]

January 11 2010

SSA program changes in 2010 {Partners}

Till December 2009 we had a very rewarding scheme with partners earning more than 30% of the estimated retail price as incentive for recommending and deploying our security solutions.
This year, some changes have been made to the SSA program, and I’d like to share the highlights here.

Recap: What is SSA?
The Security Software Advisor (SSA) program [...]

January 4 2010

Network Inspection System (NIS) in Threat Management Gateway

Network Inspection System (NIS) is the vulnerability signature component of TMG’s Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). NIS is a brand new feature in TMG, and helps prevent zero-day attacks.
This post explains how NIS works. Let’s take a scenario.

A vulnerability is detected in a product and disclosed on the internet
Software vendors start developing patches for customers affected

At [...]

December 22 2009

URL Categories, HTTPS inspection and Web Access Policy in TMG

I recently had a chance to look at the Web Access Policy capability that has been added to Threat Management Gateway (TMG), which is the latest version of ISA Server.
In this post, I will explain:

The Web Access Policy Wizard
The URL Categories feature
The HTTPS inspection feature

The Web Access Policy wizard lets you create [...]