Microsoft releases ISA Server feature pack
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Microsoft Corp. posted a downloadable Feature Pack 1 for ISA Server 2000 on Tuesday that pushes Microsoft's enterprise software firewall further up the security food chain into the role of application-layer filtering. Feature Pack 1 for Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2000 provides additional security features for Exchange and IIS servers and adds new wizards to make common scenarios easier to lock down.
"Hackers are bypassing traditional firewalls," said Zachary Gutt, technical product manager for ISA Server. "Today Port 80 is being used for many, many things other than Web browsing," Gutt said, listing Outlook Web Access and Web services as two such common, legitimate uses for the port. "ISA is really optimized for application-layer filtering."