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ISA Server 2006

	What Is ISA Server 2006?
	Usage Scenarios
	Securely Publishing Your Content for Remote Access
	Connecting and Securing Your Branch Offices
	Defending Your Environment Against External and Internal Web-Based Threats

What Is ISA Server 2006?

ISA Server 2006 is an integrated edge security gateway that helps protect your IT environment from Internet-based threats while providing your users fast and secure remote access to applications and data. ISA Server 2006 is available in two versions: standard edition and enterprise edition.

This product overview contains information about the features and capabilities in both versions, unless otherwise specified. ISA Server 2006 provides integrated security, efficient management, and fast, secure access for all types of networks.

Usage Scenarios

ISA Server 2006 provides value to IT managers, network administrators, and information security professionals who are concerned about the security, performance, manageability, or reduced cost of network operations. ISA Server 2006 can help you:

•	Securely Publish Content for Remote Access. ISA Server 2006 helps streamline the implementation providing security for corporate applications accessed over the Internet.
•	Connect and Secure Branch Offices. ISA Server 2006 provides a robust way to securely expand corporate networks reducing network costs by leveraging existing network connections.
•	Defend Against External and Internal Web-Based Threats. ISA Server 2006 was engineered to deliver stronger security to manage and protect your networks.

Securely Publishing Your Content for Remote Access

Businesses need to provide employees and partners with secure and appropriate remote access to applications, documents, and data from any PC or device.

Secure application publishing with ISA Server 2006 enables organizations to make their Exchange, SharePoint, and other Web application servers accessible in a more secure way to remote users outside the corporate network. By pre-authenticating users before they gain access to any published servers, inspecting even encrypted traffic at the application layer in a stateful manner, and providing automated publishing tools, ISA Server 2006 makes it easier to provide security for corporate applications accessed over the Internet.

Connecting and Securing Your Branch Offices

Businesses need to connect remote-site branch offices to their corporate headquarters, provide security-enhanced Internet access from branch offices and utilize limited bandwidth more efficiently.Organizations can use ISA Server 2006 as a Branch Office Gateway to connect and secure their branch offices, efficiently utilizing network bandwidth. By providing features like HTTP compression -- caching of content including software updates and site-to-site virtual private network (VPN) capabilities integrated with application-layer filtering -- ISA Server 2006 provides a cost effective way to securely expand and manage your corporate network.

Defending Your Environment Against External and Internal Web-Based Threats

Businesses need to eliminate the damaging effects of malware and attackers through a comprehensive set of tools for scanning and blocking harmful content, files, and Web sites.Web access protection with ISA Server 2006 can help organizations protect their environments from internally and externally originating Internet-based threats. With a hybrid proxy-firewall architecture, deep content inspection, granular policies, and comprehensive alerting and monitoring capabilities, ISA Server 2006 makes it easier to manage and protect your network.