Many small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are struggling to protect their business environment as Internet crime and malware has become more and more sophisticated. Attacks targeting financial transactions and specific companies are on the rise, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in business losses worldwide. At the same time, the working environment is becoming more mobile and complex, which makes SMBs even more exposed to such threats and increases the requirements for IT security expertise.
F-Secure Protection Service for Business (PSB) is designed to
meet these challenges. As it is delivered as a service through a
certified Value Added Reseller (VAR) it removes the need for the
SMB customer to maintain in-house IT expertise. For those SMB’s
that do have IT departments the solution has an easy-to-use
web-based management interface. PSB is a comprehensive and
automated security package providing constantly updated protection
against all Internet-based threats, even for mobile users. It
combines ease of use with fully featured online protection for
SMBs.
Speaking at the PSB launch Juha Ollila, F-Secure’s Vice
President of Channel Business said: “F-Secure’s new Protection
Service for Business is a service, and as such highly
cost-effective. It allows small and medium sized companies to focus
their time and resources on running their businesses instead of
struggling to keep up with the constantly evolving security
threats.”
PSB – an opportunity for IT resellers
The launch of F-Secure PSB presents an excellent opportunity for
IT resellers to offer security services to the SMB sector. Part of
the F-Secure PSB solutions is the Advanced management portal, which
allows a reseller to manage all its customers from the same
management account.
F-Secure’s pioneering “Security as a Service” solution has been
developed for value-added resellers and service provider partners,
enabling them to offer managed IT security as part of their service
portfolio. It also enables additional services to be offered on top
of the PSB hosted service, bringing extra benefits for the
end-customers.
With F-Secure Protection Service for Business, resellers can now
offer their SMB customers an easy to use, affordable and
comprehensive protection against Internet-based threats.
PSB – a comprehensive solution
F-Secure’s Protection Service for Business provides a
comprehensive security solution consisting of security client
software and a F-Secure hosted management portal for SMBs. PSB
protects desktop computers, laptops and file servers against
viruses, spyware and hidden malware. It includes a wealth of
features such as automatic security signatures, client software
updates and management system upgrades. The security status of both
office computers and moving laptops can be equally monitored.
PSB is easy to install, deploy and configure. The management
portal includes predefined security profiles for different user
groups and its automated features make PSB easy to maintain. The
F-Secure hosted service portal gives great flexibility to
management and saves the customer the cost of setting up a separate
management platform. The management portal can be accessed wherever
an Internet connection is available. PSB requires minimum
intervention and IT resource use, which means businesses spend less
time on security administration – and more time on doing business
with their customers.
The solution contains a firewall, intrusion prevention,
application control, proactive protection with F-Secure’s
state-of-the-art DeepGuard technology, as well as rootkit detection
with the F-Secure Blacklight tool. The built-in spam control keeps
e-mail free of unwanted messages.
F-Secure PSB includes 25 language localizations, which is the
most extensive localization set in F-Secure’s history. More
information about the solution can be found at
http://www.f-secure.com/
caring.
About F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against
computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile
networks. F-Secure’s award-winning solutions are available as a
service subscription through more than 160 Internet service
providers and mobile operator partners around the world, making
F-Secure the global leader in this market. The solutions are also
available as licensed products through thousands of resellers
globally. The company aspires to be the most reliable security
provider, helping make computer and smartphone users’ connected
lives safe and easy. This is substantiated by the company’s
independently proven ability to respond faster to new threats than
its main competitors. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Finland,
F-Secure has been listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki since
1999. The company has consistently been one of the fastest
growing publicly listed companies in the industry. The latest news
on real-time virus threat scenarios is available at the F-Secure
Data Security Lab weblog at
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/.
For more information, please contact:
F-Secure Corporation
Juhani Kivelä, Solution Marketing Manager
Tel. +358 (0)40 772 1120
Email:
firstname.lastname@f-secure.com
Henrietta Malmari, Corporate Communicator
Tel. +358 9 2520 5315
Email:
firstname.lastname@f-secure.com
