F-Secure and printeurope.com begin cooperation to benefit print job buyers and printing houses

Espoo, Finland - June 6, 2000

F-Secure Corporation (formerly Data Fellows) [HEX: FSC], a leading provider of security for mobile, distributed enterprises, and printeurope.com today announced that they have signed a cooperation agreement to ensure total data security in communications between print job buyers and printing houses in the Internet. As a first step in this cooperation, printeurope.com has selected F-Secure VPN+ for their virtual private network, to protect the data in the network quickly and efficiently.

printeurope.com is an Internet-based international co-operation network for the printing industry. printeurope offers demanding print job buyers a flexible and comprehensive solution for managing orders and requests for quotes. printeurope.com will cover all phases of the printing process from design to delivery and billing. For print job buyers, printeurope.com is a way to save time, trouble, and costs, as well as a way to get the best possible result for each print job.

"The cooperation agreement with F-Secure is a significant recognition for us," says printeurope.com's CEO Teppo Paavola. "Our operational model is based on total confidentiality of information between customers and vendors. We believe that cooperation with our European customers will enhance security in the e-business."

"F-Secure strongly believes in new networked business models," says Anthony Gyursanszky, Director of Business Development at F-Secure. "Security will be a growing area of concern as information is electronically created, transferred and stored in open networks. printeurope is an innovative example of the new breed of e-businesses and we are sure that cooperation will benefit all parties."

The services will be launched in the whole of Europe. The first target countries are Finland, Sweden, UK, Germany, Sweden and France.