FrontBridge Technologies, a Microsoft® subsidiary, offers managed messaging services for enforcing email compliance with encryption and archiving tools, providing email availability through a web-based back up, and improving protection of employee inboxes from viruses and spam. Its complete line of services includes message archiving, spam and virus filtering, disaster recovery, and email encryption and supports multiple e-mail platforms such as Microsoft® Exchange and other SMTP-compliant servers, as well as IBM Lotus Domino for filtering and email encryption. These managed services provide value to corporate customers by requiring no upfront capital investment, minimizing IT management overhead, and removing incoming email threats before they reach the corporate firewall. FrontBridge is now part of Microsoft’s Exchange Server Group.