ISA 2006 Pulic Beta together with Technical Product details and User Interface Walkthroughs

Internet Security and Acceleration Server is an established security product that's been in production environments since the year 2000. The second major release of the product was denoted "ISA 2004".

ISA 2004 majors on protecting Microsoft Server applications including Exchange and Internet Information Server (IIS). It's particularly good at inspecting the entire network traffic (headers and payload) including inbound encrypted web traffic (HTTP over SSL - HTTPS) - I believe this remains a unique capability.

We are close to releasing a brand new version of ISA - "ISA 2006". I must stress that ISA 2006 is not yet ready for use in production environments as it's in the final stages of Beta testing. Make sure you upgrade to ISA 2004 Service Pack 2 in your production environment as it includes support for HTTP compression which could dramatically reduce your bandwidth costs.

ISA 2006 adds further application publishing support together with enhanced support for branch office scenarios and additional resilience.

The top level ISA 2006 site is located here

View the 7 interactive UI Walkthroughs

Detailed technical product information including the Reviewers Guide & Walkthrough documents.
Test-drive the ISA 2006 Labs in a hosted environment

Download the ISA 2006 Beta