Building on a firm foothold established a decade ago, F-Secure has
announced its intention to expand its presence and operations in
the Indian subcontinent. Already in February, F-Secure opened its
India subsidiary in Mumbai followed shortly thereafter by a sales
office in Delhi.
While F-Secure’s business focus in India has been principally
with enterprise customers working through a network of local
distributors and resellers, the establishment of a subsidiary will
support the company’s strategy to now also target consumers and
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, mainly by working together with
the Internet Service Providers in the region. Mobile Anti Virus
will also be an important part of F-Secure’s offering as the 3G
market picks up speed.
Speaking about the burgeoning Indian market, Risto Siilasmaa,
President and CEO of F-Secure Corporation said: “F-Secure’s global
strategy is to offer security as a service to our customers and we
wish to now bring this successful model to the Indian market as
well. The way to do this, I believe is to offer high quality,
reliable and affordable data security services to ordinary Indian
consumers. Figures from analysts suggest explosive growth in the
DSL market alone and we want to be there to offer those millions of
consumers a safe and secure online experience.”
About F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses
against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile
networks. We want to be the most reliable provider of security services in the
market. One way to demonstrate this is the speed of our response. According to
independent studies in 2004, 2005 and 2006 our response time to new threats is
significantly faster than our major competitors. Our award-winning solutions are
available for workstations, gateways, servers and mobile phones. They include
antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and
antispyware solutions, as well as network control solutions for Internet Service
Providers. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges
since 1999, and has been consistently growing faster than all its publicly
listed competitors. F-Secure headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland, and we have
regional offices around the world. F-Secure protection is also available as a
service through major ISPs, such as France Telecom, TeliaSonera, PCCW and
Charter Communications. F-Secure is the global market leader in mobile phone
protection provided through mobile operators, such as T-Mobile and Swisscom and
mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia. The latest real-time virus threat
scenario news are available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
For more information, please contact:
Risto Siilasmaa
CEO, President
Mobile: +358 (0)40 050 2510
Fax: +358 (0)9 2520 5001
Email: firstname.lastname@f-secure.com
