F-Secure strengthens its position in Italian ISP markets

Italian telecom operator Elitel has signed an agreement with F-Secure for guaranteeing high quality security services to its Internet customers. Elitel will offer security services together with F-Secure to its clients and other people interested in security services through service packages consisting of antivirus, firewall, spam control, and parental control solutions.

"F-Secure is an ideal partner for Elitel thanks to its experience, skills and world wide recognition in the global security market," said Gian Luca Ranzani, Elitel's Marketing Director. "Due to the increase of Internet users, we identified the best security solution available on the market; a choice that we made according to our strategy focused on offering quality and value added services with particularly favourable conditions," he added.

"F-Secure strongly believes that the capability to offer the security as a service plays an important role in responding to the needs of evolving markets in the most efficient way.", said Miska Repo, Country Manager of F-Secure Italy. "The success of security as a service proves the fact that individuals often prefer to pay a subscription instead of a single software license which is a way of thinking that highlights the primary role of service providers in offering security solutions addressed to private users."

F-Secure's security solutions are increasing in popularity as a subscription service among leading ISP's and portals in Europe and the US. Customers include Charter Communications in the US, Deutsche Telekom and WEB.DE in Germany, Wanadoo in France, TeliaSonera in Sweden and Finland, Glocalnet and com hem in Sweden, Elion Enterprises in Estonia, TDC Cable TV in Denmark, BlueCom in Norway, Czech Telecom in Czech Republic and Elisa Oyj in Finland.

For more information, please contact:

F-Secure Oyj
Kalle Korpi, Vice President, Service Provider Business
PL 24
00181 Helsinki
Puh. (09) 2520 4123