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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Microsoft Planning to Phase out Forefront TMG

Buried in the latest version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway that was issued this past May, was information about Microsoft's Forefront TMG product.

Essentially Microsoft, has discontinued full updates to the Forefront TMG product, and has placed it into sustaining mode. For that reason Gartner chose not to evaluate Microsoft Forefront TMG and did not put it in the Magic Quadrant.

This is good news for the other vendors in this market space, but bad news for customers who use Microsoft's product for their secure web gateway. With the constantly evolving threat landscape it's important for the secure web gateway product to evolve and keep up with the latest in technology. If you're at all security conscious, and you use Microsoft, it may be time to start investigating other options.

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