F-Secure enters Australian market by partnering with a leading Australian Broadband Carrier

F-Secure, the leading Internet security service company, recently announced that it partners with Australia's second largest broadband carrier Optus to offer residential and small business customers F-Secure’s PC protection service. Optus is the first Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP) to offer security as a service. Under the name Optus Internet Security Suite, the security solution shields broadband customers from viruses, spyware, outside attacks, and harmful content.

F-Secure hosts and manages the Security-as-a-Service platform. Optus customers who subscribe to the service will have a very seamless and automated protection

Mark Mulder, General Manager, Content and Portals, Optus Consumer, says, "Optus is pleased to be partnering with F-Secure to offer Optus Internet Security Suite to its customers. The partnership enables Optus to provide a broadband connection that is safe and secure from viruses, hackers and other Internet nasties. We are offering this service until May 2008 free to all Optus Broadband customers for the first twelve months."

"Security-as-a-Service allows ISPs to strengthen customer loyalty, attract new customers and generate new revenue streams from consumer security services such as parental control and spam filtering," Jari Heinonen, Vice President, F-Secure APAC, says. "We are happy to see major players like Optus take security very seriously", he continued.

F-Secure is the clear leader in offering the Security-as-a-Service concept through ISPs. The ISP partners that F-Secure works with cover 25 per cent of all the broadband subscribers in Europe and North America. F-Secure’s Security-as-a-Service partners include major European ISPs such as France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, TeliaSonera in the Nordic area, PCCW in Hong-Kong, VSNL and Reliance Communications In India, and Charter Communications in Canada.

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, 2005 and 2006 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. 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 France Telecom, 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

About Optus

Optus is an Australian leader in integrated communications - serving more than six million customers each day. The company provides a broad range of communications services including mobile, national and long distance services, local telephony, international telephony, business network services, Internet and satellite services and subscription television.

For more Information:

Hazel Hassan, PR Manager

F-Secure Asia Pacific Region

Direct: +603 2264 0366

Mobile: +6017 272 4611

Email: hazlina.puspa.hassan@f-secure.com