F-Secure today announces a unique corporate security concept,
F-Secure Service Platform for Businesses, representing a major
opportunity for multiple service providers to offer security
services to the Small and Medium Sized Business sector (SMB). The
service, based upon award winning client software and an
easy-to-use www-based administration portal developed by F-Secure,
will offer complete protection against present data security
threats either through the business client itself or via the
service provider.
The key advantage of the new service is the increased level of
automation in the security solution and the ease of management.
Accordingly, companies need to spend significantly less time
implementing and managing security with the new solution than
previously.
F-Secure Service Platform for Businesses is able to protect
against viruses, spyware, malware and intrusion attempts. In
addition, it also includes a firewall, as well as spam and content
filtering. A company’s workstations and the network covered by the
service can be controlled through the web-based management portal.
The security status is available 24/7 in real time and security
risks can be addressed without delay. The client organization can
therefore manage and take control of its own network or outsource
its management to a service provider.
The concept has been piloted with four different service
providers around the world: New World Telecom in Hong Kong, intY in
the UK, the portal Infinito.it in Italy and Finnet in Finland. It
is now available to all service providers interested in targeting
the SMB sector. License control has also been made flexible and
easy thanks to the web-based management portal and the absence of
extra installation components, as is the case with competing
workstation security software.
Speaking about the launch, Riikka Jakovuori, Business
Development Manager at F-Secure said: “The needs of IT security
change continuously which in turn place great demands on
enterprises to increase know-how, resources and budgets to cover
maintenance and upkeep. Until now security as a service has been
out of reach for SMBs and accordingly they have had to choose
between consumer products and enterprise grade solutions without
either being particularly well suited to their needs.”
“The F-Secure Service Platform for Businesses from F-Secure
enables the SMB sector to ensure cost efficient security services,
which they presently lack. The pilot schemes have proved the
workability of this solution and service providers such as Internet
service providers, telco’s and other type of network service
providers have proven to be the natural choice for service
provision to this significant business sector,” Jakovuori
concludes.
"The unique new service concept developed by F-Secure helps the
corporations' IT managers to follow the security status of the
corporations' workstations and network. We at New World Telecom or
our customers themselves can easily proactively spot and isolate
the disruptive workstation and prevent a possible crisis situation
in advance. We are pleased to be able to offer our customers
together with F-Secure an automated always-on service that does not
need any extra installation components nor concern about updates",
said York Mok, Vice President of Marketing, New World Telecom.
"The F-Secure Service Platform for Businesses will prove a
valuable tool to help small and medium sized businesses secure
their desktop PCs. The easy to use and easy to manage format make
it an ideal solution for busy smaller businesses, leaving them with
the peace of mind that their PCs are protected from malicious
threats. We will be looking at how we can integrate the F-Secure
Service Platform for Businesses into our existing range of security
products, giving our customers protection from email and web-based
security threats at both the network and desktop level," said Mark
Herbert, Founder Director of intY Ltd.
About F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against
computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile
networks. We want to be the most reliable provider of security
services in the market. One way to demonstrate this is the speed of
our response. According to independent studies in 2004 and 2005 our
response time to new threats is significantly faster than our major
competitors. Our award-winning solutions are available for
workstations, gateways, servers and mobile phones. They include
antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam
and antispyware solutions, as well as network control solutions for
Internet Service Providers. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been
listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999, and has been
consistently growing faster than all its publicly listed
competitors. F-Secure headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland, and we
have regional offices around the world. F-Secure protection is also
available as a service through major ISPs, such as FranceTelecom,
TeliaSonera, PCCW and Charter Communications. F-Secure is the
global market leader in mobile phone protection provided through
mobile operators, such as T-Mobile and Swisscom and mobile handset
manufacturers such as Nokia. The latest real-time virus threat
scenario news are available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab
weblog at
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
About intY Ltd
intY provides secure Internet and e-mail communications. It was
the first UK entrant into the managed Internet server market in
early 1997 and is driven by the desire to deliver secure
communications systems for all its customers - on their terms and
without hassle. Due to the continuing heavy investment in R&D,
intY Ltd is now a global leader in the managed Internet services
market with products and services such as intY ExoServer, intY
managed services and intY MailDefender. intY’s growth is reflected
by the fact that it is a Deloitte and Touche Fast 50 and Times Fast
Track 100 company.
About New World Telecom
Established in 1995, New World Telecom (NWT) is a member of New
World Development Company Ltd. Backed by its advanced Next
Generation Network, NWT has evolved from a traditional telecom
carrier into a next generation IP and telecom service provider
offering wide spectrum of unparalleled integrated communications
solutions, applications and content services, such as broadband, IP
telephony, VPN, IPLC, wireless solutions, local and international
voice services, etc.
NWT has continuously expanded its business coverage by investing
in both local and international network infrastructure, and
establishing bilateral partnerships with more than 140 global
incumbents and major carriers. In addition, NWT has obtained
appropriate facility-based licenses and has established
Point-of-Presence facilities and offices in strategically selected
countries and regions, including the US, Taiwan, the UK and
Singapore. For details, please visit
http://www.newworldtel.com.
For further information, please contact:
New World Telecommunications Limited
Ms Y S Ng
Tel: 2133 7199 / (852) 9214 7232
Fax: 2133 0795
E-mail:
cindy.ng@newworldtel.com
F-Secure Corporation
Riikka Jakovuori, Business Development Manager
Tel. +358 40 7057878
PL 24
FIN-00181 Helsinki
