New Product Provides Centrally Managed Protection for Corporate System Services

Helsinki, Finland, February 16, 1999 — Data Fellows, the global leader in developing data security software solutions, announces that it has started shipping its new F-Secure Anti-Virus Agent & Server. This product provides corporate system services with centrally-managed, scalable protection against malicious code.

F-Secure Anti-Virus Agent & Server is managed via a centralized policy based management architecture. Integration with leading Enterprise Management Products is also available. Each protected system has its own unique F-Secure Anti-Virus Agent, and the protected systems may vary from mail servers to database servers.

In this first phase, Data Fellows has shipped F-Secure Anti-Virus Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server and F-Secure Anti-Virus Agent for Firewalls. F-Secure Anti-Virus Agent for Internet Mail and F-Secure Agent for Lotus Domino will be released later. The product will replace F-Secure Anti-Virus for Firewalls.

F-Secure Anti-Virus Server provides core services to the Agents. This includes malicious code detection and removal; quarantine for the malicious data so it can be stored and processed further by the Administrator; and reporting and alerting functions.

The Agents and Servers are managed through F-Secure Administrator, the Data Fellows’ policy-based management utility. The Administrator is able to partition the company network into "security zones". The policies may specify common settings for all workstations, servers and gateways in a zone or in the entire network. Alternatively, a policy may be set for a single computer.

The Data Fellows management architecture can also be used to manage Data Fellow's workstation and server anti-virus products as well as its network and file encryption products. A single policy based mechanism provides management services to all security products in the company. This both minimizes management effort and costs and increases security by integrating different security services into a seamless solution.

"Protecting your system couldn’t be easier, and it is also completely unobtrusive to the end user," says Mr. Ari Hypponen, Vice President, Product Management, for Data Fellows. "The beauty of this product is its scalability. Different services can use the same server, and more servers can be installed, if the number of Agents increases. Therefore, this is ideal for corporations of any size."

F-Secure Anti-Virus Agent and Server is priced at $1,500 for 100 users; these prices include maintenance for one year and one Agent module. The price per one additional Agent module is $750 for 100 users.