Network Security Using FOREFRONT help for ERP
Along with countries in the various aspects of e-commerce and e-government to promote policies, ERP for us much better for the company, no longer so strange, ERP software, the characteristics of data sets to facilitate enterprise management, improve operational efficiency of enterprises, but also makes a lot of before the occurrence of the loss company can take timely measures to reduce it to a minimum.

ERP software is not a panacea, however, in practical use, always bring a lot of Safe security and control issues, once these negative issue is resolved, the effectiveness of information technology for businesses is undoubtedly even more powerful.

Last year, Indian New Year, we had a few people with the safety of the group listen to them talk about when the exchange has just come out of Microsoft's products FOREFRONT, come back the next after a thorough study and found that many of its features just to meet our current needs.

First, in the ERP, we are often faced with such a problem, ERP platform, no doubt if they are directly into the INTERNET, and online enterprise confidential information on the Internet with people downloading no big difference, because in here, hundreds of thousands of system operators inside their in various countries, safety awareness is not guaranteed, but put up the LAN while the security, but for many businesses, the scope of their business across the country, the long-term overseas business people, we must give them an access to Enterprise ERP program, while Microsoft ISA2006 can be integrated SSL encryption VP, application layer filtering and endpoint security management, which allows agents to anywhere on the internal network, ERP and business-related documents and data, secure access to ensure that ERP efficient and safe operation. At the same time ISA2006 with Active Directory integration, through the fine identity-based policy to control access to enterprise network endpoints. In addition to another network edge Forefront family of security products (IAG) 2007 provides more rigorous endpoint security verification, more convenient browser-based VPN connection to the client to provide more advanced security and management control, while also Policy-based access can be extended to partners and customers.

On the other hand, corporate ERP system function complex, patches are constantly released, but for the enterprise that not all patches are applied, many patches there are also dependencies between the client and server server-side patches inconsistencies may lead to other unpredictable problems, ERP in the operating system versions of some applications also have certain requirements, especially in the operating system patch installation above, many of We have a good time to control the ERP system patch and patch compatibility and conflict issues, in addition we need to ensure the system where the client and its environment is not destroyed by malicious software, to avoid affecting the operator's daily work, how timely understanding of each customer client machine's system configuration and installation of patches and to quickly deploy these security patches and application information for our departments a new challenge, and in the Forefront of Client Security to all clients can conduct a comprehensive protection and control, management Members can state assessment scans and security alerts to determine which from the Forefront Client Security managed computers need patches or are configured insecurely, the current state of the instrument panel to install a snapshot can help you understand the need for action location. Administrator Client Security by defining a strategy, with corporate Active Directory and software distribution services (WSUS / SUS), can manage one or more computers to protect your proxy settings for all the signatures in order to achieve faster, more quickly software deployment to desktops, laptops and server operating systems. ERP client so as to ensure safe and stable operation.

In addition, in order to protect the ERP can be highly efficient and stable network access from the outside, the company invested a lot of money on the company's network, but employees during working hours, non-compliance with company rules, free download music and movies to watch online video, are the company's network resources, causing serious occupied bandwidth abuse salesman can not make a normal exploitation of the corporate network for business operations, while the Forefront provides a comprehensive access control functionality, through a rational set access permissions, to prevent the abuse of Internet resources, in the Here we can also set up ISA to the bandwidth priority in times of network congestion, give priority to ERP operator network connection, so as to ERP client and server-side connection smooth.

The above I According to the ERP implementation problems encountered in combining the characteristics of FOREFRONT to make a point summed up, in practice, many enterprises in the ERP other information systems, there still exist between the data transfer problem, where you can use Microsoft Forefront Server Security-related services to adopt the right side of the protection and filtering strategy to right the external server and transfer of information between the ERP server, the necessary control and monitoring, on the other hand ensure that the ERP of the highly efficient and stable operation.