BCS deploys subscription-based security for enterprises in Estonia in cooperation with F-Secure

In co-operation with long term partner Baltic Computer Systems (BCS) F-Secure today announced that it has successfully started to roll out its Service Platform for Enterprises in Estonia with Tallinn City Education Department.

The Department with 5000 desktops has adopted the service which includes not only desktop protection, but also comprehensive protection for servers and gateway products for a three-year period.

The service-centric solution enables enterprises such as Tallinn City Education Department to use the full range of F-Secure solutions without the need for initial license investments as all solutions are provided as a service by BCS.

Customers will benefit from enhanced flexibility and the high-end security expertise provided by BCS, powered by F-Secure technologies. The service is delivered using F-Secure Service Platform for Enterprises and it consists of a wide range of anti-virus and intrusion prevention technologies.

This solution ensures that service providers, such as BCS, can offer their customers a highly comprehensive security service with up-to-date protection and automatic virus updates working transparently in the background for their desktops, remote users, servers and gateway traffic.

"We are happy to have such a major customers as Tallinn City Education Department relying on us as their partner and on our award winning technologies. As threats in the Internet keep on evolving and are today often mastered by organised criminals, we need to be able to continue providing fast response against new threats and to meet the criteria of versatile customers ranging from small companies to large enterprises. Security-centric solutions are one of our key strategies to make our technologies available in an easy and scalable way to all our customers and to continue our strong growth in the AV business,” says Ari Alakiuttu, Vice President, Corporate Programmes.

"We have had a successful partnership with F-Secure for more than ten years already and now as an increasing number of companies are looking for services as an alternative for license purchase, this is a very natural step for us to sign on as an F-Secure service partner. The F-Secure Service Platform for Enterprises enables us to broaden our offering in to comprehensive service packages that scale from just a few user installations to major enterprise deployments, such as Tallinn City education system. As F-Secure is already a market leader in the Estonian market, we have strong faith in this service-centric approach being the next step of protection which many companies are looking into," says Ants Sild, CEO of BCS.

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 Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, 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/

For more information, please contact: 
Samu Konttinen, Regional Manager F-Secure Corporation
Mobile: +358 (0)50 382 5995
Fax: +358 (0)9 2520 5004

Ants Sild, CEO, CEO Baltic Computer Systems
Mobile: +(372) 5019680
Fax: +(372) 6998182
www.bcs.ee