Largest Organization of Independent ISPs in North America Partners With F-Secure to Offer Security Services to Its 700+ Members.
F-Secure Corporation today announced that it has become a
platinum sponsor the American Alliance of Service Providers (AASP)
to offer its award-winning security-as-a-service to AASP’s 700+
members and 5.3 million end users.
F-Secure will offer the AASP members its F-Secure Service
Platform for Consumers Standard that will enable any ISP to enhance
its current product portfolio, create new revenue streams, and
improve retention and satisfaction. This solution allows the
service provider to offer their residential and small-office
subscribers a complete, award-winning security solution that
defends their Windows Computers against viruses, spyware, worms,
hackers, spam, and other harmful content.
“F-Secure is committed to enabling AASP members to quickly add
an easy, effective, and lucrative managed security solution to
their existing product portfolio,” said Travis Witteveen, Vice
President, Americas for F-Secure. “With F-Secure solution, an ISP
can offer to its customers a completely automated security service
without any integration needed. The fact is that with our security
concept, the ISP can focus on increasing revenue streams, while we
manage the service 24/7.”
“We are pleased to announce our partnership with F-Secure. The
F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers is exactly the kind of
value-added product that AASP seeks out for its members,” said
Corrina Wolfe, Senior Vice President of Design and Development. “
The offering will provide a fully integrated Anti-Virus, Spyware,
Firewall, Spam control and Parental control solution, which we are
confident, will help our members not only increase revenues, but
more importantly, acquire new subscribers and keep the ones they
have.”
About F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation is
the fastest growing publicly listed company globally in the antivirus and
intrusion prevention industry with more than 50% revenue growth of antivirus
revenues in 2004. F-Secure services and software protect individuals and
businesses against computer viruses and other threats coming through the
Internet or mobile networks. Our award-winning solutions include antivirus and
desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions.
Our key strength is our proven speed of response to new threats. For businesses
our solutions feature a centrally managed and well integrated suite of solutions
for workstations and servers alike. Focused partners offer security as a service
for those companies that do not wish to build security expertise in-house.
Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999.
We have our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and offices in France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom and USA. F-Secure is
supported by a global ecosystem of service partners, value added resellers and
distributors in over 50 countries. F-Secure protection is also available through
mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia and as a service through major
Internet Service Providers, such as Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and Charter
Communications. The latest real-time virus threat scenario news are available at
the F-Secure Antivirus Research Team weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
About the AASP
Based in Virginia, the American Alliance of Service Providers is
an organization that was set up to join together ISPs in a unified
front. The AASP membership has grown to over 800 US based ISPs.
These ISPs collectively bring to the table more than 5.3 Million
consumers and take a collective number of Web Hits per month to the
tune of 220 Million and employ over 8,400 people.
AASP has several focus areas for its Members to include:
- Savings on industry Products and Services
- Added Revenue Generation
- Innovative methods for our Members to acquire and retain
consumers and reduce churn.
Based on group power, the AASP is focused on helping its members
prosper by finding additional revenue sources for them, assisting
them in cost cutting and delivering value added services to their
subscribers. An advisory board of ISPs helps AASP review products
and provides input on the product and the companies providing them.
Several long-term projects will bring new customers to the members
and reduce churn substantially. Products are under review that will
give the broadband ISPs the ability to compete more
effectively.
U.S. Press Contact:
Marie Clark
Rocket Science, for F-Secure Inc.
Tel. (415) 464-8110 x4
marie@rocketscience.com
