F-Secure strengthens its position with Bredbandsbolaget deal

Jun 14, 2005:

F-Secure Corporation (HEX: FSC), and Swedish service provider, Bredbandsbolaget today announced a partnership deal to offer a comprehensive set of security services to Bredbandsbolaget’s consumer and business segment customers.

"We decided to partner with F-Secure as their service provider concept had already gained acceptance among a wide range of Nordic Internet service providers. F-Secure’s solution features excellent security products as well as a flexible business model well tailored to our needs,” said, Peder Ramel at Bredbandsbolaget adding: “Our partnership with F-Secure enable us to bring our customers a new level of flexibility and protection against Internet threats whether at consumer or corporate levels.”

“Broadband customers are constantly exposed to on-line threats and running antivirus software at the desktop level alone is not enough,” says Kalle Korpi, Vice President, Service Provider Business at F-Secure, adding: “We provide consumers and businesses with comprehensive, easy to use and flexible solutions for their security needs.”

F-Secure's security solutions are increasingly popular 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, Cablecom in Switzerland, TDC Cable TV in Denmark, Telenet in Belgium, Czech Telecom in Czech Republic and Elisa Oyj in Finland.

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 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, Poland, 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 Bredbandsbolaget

Bredbandsbolaget is, with over 325 000 private and 10 000 corporate customers, Sweden’s largest broadband provider second to Telia. Bredbandsbolaget is also Sweden’s largest provider of IP-telephony, today serving over 80 000 private customers. The company was founded in 1998 and has 290 employees. See www.bredbandsbolaget.se for more information

For more information, please contact:

F-Secure Corporation Mr. Björn Werling Sales Manager Service Provider Solutions Tammasaarenkatu 7, PL 24 FIN-00181 Helsinki, Finland tel: +358 9 2520 5670