The Internet Service Provider security market for F-Secure has seen remarkable growth figures in recent years in part due to the exponential growth in broadband subscriptions around the world and F-Secures strategy to develop security services to this growth sector well ahead of time. In late June, F-Secure released F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers with integrated antispyware to offer small and medium size customers a complete and award-winning desktop based solution.
With the ever-present threat of spyware and viruses to businesses and other members of the on-line community, protection at the gateway level is clearly not enough. For this reason, service providers have acknowledged the importance of introducing a security solution that filters e mail traffic already at the network level rather than on the end-users desktop.
F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers is nevertheless a desktop-based solution insofar as the security software is active on the desktop of the end-user and for a reason. Security, which is controllable from the client side offers a greater level of fine-tuning to the kinds of threats associated with modern on line computer usage.
The advantage of a product like F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers naturally offers the protection above gateway level by securing threats from such day to day transactions as CD Rom and USB stick downloads, Internet downloads, information received from peer to peer networks and all the dangers of attachment files in e mail messages.
The benefit from the Service Providers side with F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers is the fact that the interface, which the customer sees when accessing their desktop-based security solution, is customized according to the look and feel of the companys brand. Accordingly, the SP can offer F-Secures award-winning technology and support with no further confusion to the customer about who is providing their data security.
SPs also benefit from the fact that the F-Secure solution can help to reduce churn from its customers by offering an extremely solid level of security control which is updated faster than any other security vendor on the market and which reacts faster to threats when they emerge.
Spyware detected
One of the bigger threats to modern on line business these days is spyware something which Bill Gates himself identified as a problem larger than viruses in the modern pantheon of malware.
In brief, spyware is a malicious kind of software, which intercepts or takes partial control of a computer's operation without the user's informed consent usually for commercial gain. Typical tactics of spyware infecting a computer include delivery of unsolicited pop-up advertisements; theft of personal information through keylogging exploits (including financial information such as credit card numbers in its worst instance); monitoring of web-browsing activity for marketing purposes; or routing of HTTP requests to specific advertising sites.
Acknowledging the broad scale of the threat, F-Secure actively sought to integrate antispyware technology into its F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers product. This integration effectively cuts short any possibility for a person enjoying the protection of F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers to be exploited by spyware. F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers automatically detects and removes spyware and since it is integrated with Anti-Virus there are no needs to run separate spyware scans. All told, the design of F-Secure Service Platform for Consumers has been made as simple as possible to ensure that customers running it can go about their business without further worry or concern about their security solution.
Author: Mark Woods, Corporate Communicator
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