TSP and Its Worldwide Partner Network Joins Data Fellows

Helsinki, Finland, October 2, 1998 - Data Fellows, the developer of the ground-breaking F-Secure Anti-Virus product family, and the Dutch company TSP - The Security Provider have signed a cooperation and distribution agreement. 

TSP, whose owners were behind ThunderByte anti-virus toolkit, currently has a relationship with over 40 ThunderByte distributors world-wide. TSP specializes in security consultancy and marketing of information security products. According to the announced cooperation agreement, TSP will concentrate on selling Data Fellows products in the Netherlands, and its international operations and distribution network will be taken over by Data Fellows and its partners.

"The addition of TSP to our list of partners will be yet another step toward our goal of being among the top data security providers in the world." says Risto Siilasmaa, President and CEO of Data Fellows. "Together with Data Fellows’ complete line of data security products, TSP’s network of distributors around the world is going to make a valuable contribution to our existing world wide partner network that already covers over 80 countries."

Says Harald Zeeman of TSP, "The anti-virus market structures are changing. The customers today demand overall data security solutions instead of point applications. Therefore it is important for a small company like ours to form alliances and thereby to remain viable. The future belongs to those who have the broadest expertise and service to its customers.

"With this alliance we are able to serve our existing customer base by offering them migration not only to the award-winning F-Secure Anti-Virus product range but above all to the F-Secure Workstation Suite which Data Fellows recently announced." 

TSP was founded in 1998 after Norman Data Defense Systems B.V. took over the development of the ThunderByte scanning engine.