Protecting your networks

Forefront TMG has a number of protection technologies that allow you to protect the computers and servers in your extended network. The following topics describe how to enable, configure, and keep up-to-date these protections:

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For more information about these protections, see Protection design guide for Forefront TMG.

• Configuring protection from known vulnerabilities—Describes how to protect your networks from attempts to exploit known vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications.
  
  
• Configuring protection from network attacks—Describes how to protect your networks from flood, DNS, and other kinds of attacks.
  
  
• Configuring protection from web-based threats—Describes how to protect your organization from malware and other Web-based threats:
  
  
• Configuring protection from e-mail-based threats—Describes how to protect your SMTP mail servers (and consequently e-mail recipients) from spam, viruses and other malware.
  
  
• Managing definition updates for Forefront TMG—Describes how to configure the update mechanisms for these protections.
  
  

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