Forefront and NAP: Perfect Together

Jeff Alexander, an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft Australia, has news today of Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Proection. It integrates Microsoft Forefront Client Security with the Network Access Protection security feature of Windows Server 2008.

Here's how NAP fits in: If NAP detects a compliance issue with Forefront Client Security on one of the managed computers, NAP will attempt to remediate the issue or restrict the computer's access to network resources, depending on the health policies.

Forefront Client Security is comprehensive anti-malware software from Microsoft that provides unified protection from viruses, spyware, and other current and emerging threats. NAP is a new feature in Windows Server 2008 that can control network access based on a computer’s compliance with an organization's health policy. NAP uses system health validators (SHVs) to configure the policies that are used to determine if network access is granted. System health agents (SHAs) provide the information needed to make this determination.