Data Fellows Provides Transparent Desktop File Encryption with Framework- enabled F-Secure FileCrypto 4.0

Espoo, Finland, August 31, 1999 - Data Fellows, one of the world’s leading developers of anti-virus and encryption software, announces that its desktop file encryption software, F-Secure FileCrypto 4.0, now takes full advantage of Data Fellows' F-Secure Framework.

F-Secure Framework provides F-Secure FileCrypto with centralized policy-based management features, which makes FileCrypto easy to deploy and manage in a corporate environment. F-Secure FileCrypto is the only file encryption solution to allow the administrator to implement the company's encryption policy, instead of relying on every individual user deciding which directories and files should be protected.

Traditional desktop file encryption has been limited to the user selecting files to manually encrypt or decrypt, but by working at the operating systems’ file management subsystem, F-Secure FileCrypto decrypts and encrypts files automatically, in real-time without any user intervention. Because of this transparency, the user will barely notice they are using an encryption program. Unlike other encryption products, there are no new drives to mount nor any new filenames and extensions changed.

"FileCrypto offers excellent value for a company because it can be remotely installed and managed and in the event a machine is stolen or compromised, the data is always encrypted further protecting the companies important and highly confidential data," says Tracey Thomas, product manager at Data Fellows. "Corporations are further protected by centralized key management and key recovery. If a user forgets his password or is terminated, the administrator can recover the encrypted data."

The new version of F-Secure FileCrypto has many new features, such as support for Windows 95, as well as remote installation to network hosts from the administration workstation.

F-Secure FileCrypto 4.0 is available as a point application and as part of the F-Secure Workstation Suite. The supported platforms are Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95. The encryption methods are 3DES and Blowfish.

The price will be USD 59 per user for a 100-user licence.