Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) was developed to be a secure application gateway, to manage, control, and optimize remote access for managed and non-managed endpoints, to corporate applications and resources.

Forefront UAG provides the following: - Remote access: Using Forefront UAG you can allow and control access to internal resources and applications from a range of managed and unmanaged client endpoints.

- Application support: Forefront UAG provides broad application support for a wide range of Microsoft and third-party applications. Application optimizers, consisting of predefined settings and values, provide optimum settings for accessing a specific application via Forefront UAG.

- Access control: Forefront UAG provides granular access control, to ensure that only client endpoints complying with corporate health guidelines can access internal applications and resources.

- Authentication: Forefront UAG provides frontend and backend authentication mechanisms. Frontend authentication allows you to pre-authenticate users using a wide range of authentication mechanisms, ensuring that only authenticated traffic reaches published application servers. Forefront UAG provides a single sign-on experience for authentication to backend applications.