Following this acquisition, the product was renamed Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway Server 2007. Microsoft completed the acquisition on 26 July 2006. On, Microsoft announced that it would be acquiring Whale Communications. Whale's uniqueness was in its ability to granularly filter and alter the flow of traffic to enable a path of least access and protect from both known and unknown attacks/vulnerabilities using an application specific positive logic filtering engine. In 2002, the market evolved into offering more comprehensive SSL VPN features. As adoption grew, the product pivoted to focus more specifically on Remote Access use-cases and additional features and licensing options were added to provide employee and contractor remote access across a range of connectivity options. In the 90's and early 2000's, e-Gap was enhanced to provide comprehensive reverse proxy features that included in-depth filtering of inbound traffic to ensure the security of the web servers and applications it protected. The product was originally built to offer sneaker-net services and shortly thereafter features to enable HTTP connections were added.
It consisted of an appliance housing a 512k memory chip that toggled connections between two servers via a SCSI bus. Whale's initial product, e-Gap, was designed to create physical separation between networks of disparate trust levels. Unified Access Gateway was originally developed by a startup company named Whale Communications in Rosh HaAyin, Israel. Microsoft discontinued the product in 2014, although the Web Application Proxy feature of Windows Server 2012 R2 and later offers some of its functionalities. UAG is part of the Microsoft Forefront offering. UAG was released in 2010, and is the successor for Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway ( IAG) which was released in 2007. Its services include reverse proxy, virtual private network (VPN), DirectAccess and Remote Desktop Services.
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway ( UAG) is a discontinued software suite that provides secure remote access to corporate networks for remote employees and business partners. The computer on which Forefront UAG is being installed should be devoid of all other software except its operating system. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise edition
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