F-Secure to provide co-branded security solution to enterprise-focused ISP group TDC

Apr 11, 2007:

F-Secure today announced a deal with Internet Service Provider TDC to provide a Protection Service for Business package to its enterprise customers, first in Finland with TDC Song Oy and later this year in Sweden. The deal follows an earlier one made with TDC in Denmark where the group has its headquarters. TDC Song Oy is an important part of the Nordic TDC group principally serving enterprise customers.

F-Secure Protection Service for Businesses offers a flexible security service delivery platform that is ideally suited to the needs of multiple service providers such as ISPs, MSSPs, ASPs and system integrators to offer managed desktop security services.

The solution, which is co-branded with TDC Song Oy, is managed by F-Secure. This enables TDC Song to offer their SMB customers a complete security service solution with award winning client software combined with an easy-to-use web based SMB management portal. This allows TDC Song to distribute the solution to their target enterprise customers in a swift and cost effective manner.

Speaking about the deal, Sami Kohonen, product manager of TDC Song said:
“By commercialising managed security to the SMB segment, we at TDC Song can offer our enterprise customers an essential service which is vital to their business continuity. In an Internet-driven world, providing data security of the caliber to our business customers is an important addition to our service offering and one which builds new revenue streams and a deeper relationship with our clients.”

Kalle Korpi, Vice President, Service Provider Business at F-Secure added: “We are delighted with the deal made with TDC Song which extends our Nordic presence in the provision of data security services to ISP customers. We are assured that together with TDC, Song we can offer the SMB segment a flexible and affordable solution for their data security needs.”

About F-Secure

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/


About TDC Song

TDC Song (ex. Song Networks) has been since November 2004 part of the international, Danish TDC group. TDC turnover was in 2006 about 47,4 bn DKK (about 6,4 bn euros). Business idea of TDC Song is to offer the best IP based data, internet and voice solution to companies, communities, and together with partners to residential customers. Individual communications solutions will be carried out in order to support and develop customers’ business. The company has been founded in 1995, and it has about 860 employees and 23 offices in the Nordic countries. In Finland the company has been functioning since 1999. In June 2001 Song Networks acquired Telia Finland Oy. www.tdcsong.fi

For more information, please contact:

F-Secure
Kalle Korpi
Vice President, Service Provider Business
Mobile: +358 (0)40 510 2585
Email: firstname.lastname@f-secure.com

TDC Song
Sami Kohonen
Product Manager
Mobile: +358 (0)50 994 2617
Email: sami.kohonen@tdcsong.fi