F-Secure Announces Policy Manager

First-ever policy-based management of critical security applications under one GUI

Espoo, Finland - May 9, 2000

Espoo, Finland, May 9, 2000 - F-Secure [HEX: FSC], a leading provider of centrally-managed, widely distributed security solutions, today announced an exciting addition to its product line, F-Secure Policy Manager. This product enables companies to seamlessly manage the security of multiple applications on multiple operating systems from one central location, extending from traditional LAN-based systems to the smart phones and PDAs of the future.

F-Secure Policy Manager provides simple yet powerful implementation of corporate security policies. Using polite push technology, this "blanket security" will become more and more important as incidents such as the Love Letter virus and denial of service attacks become more commonplace.

"This announcement moves F-Secure into the leadership position for end-to-end security solutions, ensuring security policies are always 'on' and providing peace of mind for corporations today," said Tanya Candia, Vice President of Global Marketing for F-Secure. "We empower security managers to build and manage an integrated security infrastructure reaching into all corners of the organization."

Customers for the F-Secure Policy Manager include both large corporations who provide security services to their internal users, and large ASPs, ISPs and facilities management firms who provide Security as a Service(tm) to their corporate customers.

Said Jussi Partanen, Director of Marketing at Merkantildata ASA, the largest outsourcing company in Scandinavia, "We selected F-Secure as our security solution vendor because of the company's vision for integrated security management which is enabled by F-Secure Policy Manager. The Policy Manager enables Merkantildata to deliver state-of-the-art security services and other application services very cost-effectively to end customers. We are delighted to be able to partner with F-Secure."

The power of the F-Secure Policy Manager lays in the F-Secure three-tier management architecture, which provides massive scalability for a widely distributed, mobile workforce. The F-Secure Policy Manager is comprised of two components: the F-Secure Policy Manager Console and F-Secure Policy Manager Server. They provide the two upper layers on the management architecture and are seamlessly integrated with the F-Secure Management Agents that handle all management functions on local hosts."

F-Secure Policy Manager is integrated with these F-Secure products: F-Secure Anti-Virus, F-Secure Distributed Firewall, F-Secure FileCrypto and F-Secure VPN+, in addition to third-party applications through its open API. Automated alarms and alerts are sent to a centralized console, or to management infrastructures including Tivoli TME 10, Microsoft Systems Management Server, HP Open View, CA Unicenter and IBM NetView.