F-Secure Expands Reach in Security Market With North American Broadband Service Providers

Surge of New Partner Wins With Security as a Service Delivery Model

F-Secure® Corporation, a leading provider of co-branded security services delivered via broadband providers, today announced a surge of new partner wins in North America. In the beginning of April, F-Secure security services were available through 143 Service Providers in 34 countries around the world. New partner wins in North America further strengthen F-Secure’s position, and include leading broadband service providers such as Cincinnati Bell, EastLink, EchoStar (Dish Network) Communications Corporation, TDS Telecommunications, VTR/Liberty Media and Wide Open West.

F-Secure’s Protection Service for Consumers is designed specifically for network service providers, who prefer its managed security over competitive offerings because it is co-branded and fully managed for turn the switch deployment. F-Secure’s security service has proven itself to reduce churn, lessen malware data traffic within broadband networks and reduce the volume of technical support calls.

Powering F-Secure’s security service is award-winning anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-spam technology as well as F-Secure BlackLight rootkit scanning and the new F-Secure DeepGuard application to provide zero-day protection. F-Secure’s security solutions are consistently rated among the best in the industry. In 2006 F-Secure ranked No. 1 in anti-spyware and F-Secure earned InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year award. With an average response time of two to four hours, F-Secure responds to new virus outbreaks up to four times faster than its major competitors, according to AV-Test.org*).
 
"The success of F-Secure’s Protection Service to Consumers is a testament to the industry’s thirst for a robust yet easy-to-deploy security offering that requires little management and maintenance on the part of the service provider," said Curtis Cresta, F-Secure’s vice president of North American operations. "Service providers such as ISPs, MSSPs and ASPs know they can trust F-Secure to protect their end users while greatly increasing subscriber stickiness and per-subscriber revenue."

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, 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 Liberty Media, Charter Communications, Shaw Cablesystems, and EchoStar 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/

*) AV-Test.org Statement
Independent research studies show that F-Secure detects new threats faster compared to other major antivirus vendors. F-Secure also updates customers more regularly than other major antivirus vendors.  F-Secure sends out on average 40 updates per week, which is 4 times more than Symantec, 5 times more than Trend Micro and 8 times more than McAfee. F-Secure customers receive updates to virus outbreaks on average 2 to 4 hours after the first sample is detected. On average, Trend Micro customers are updated 6 to 8 hours, Symantec customers 10 to 12 hours and McAfee customers 12 to 14 hours after the first sample. (Source: c't 2007, Heft 5 based on data from AV-Test.org)

U.S. Press Contacts:

Marie Clark
Rocket Science PR, for F-Secure Inc.
Tel. (415) 464-8110 x4