F-Secure, the fastest growing publicly listed company globally in the antivirus and intrusion prevention industry signs first partner in Taiwan and enters first partnership with a gaming house
F-Secure and Gamania, the third largest online gaming house globally with a presence in four Asian countries, have signed a deal to make a custom security solution available to its more than 6,6 million online gaming customers. Gamania thus becomes the 100th Service Provider partner for F-Secure.
The solution provides first-class automated security services including antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall protection to ensure a trouble-free and safe online gaming experience for Gamania’s customers. F-Secure takes care of the hosting and maintenance of the service, which is monitored 24/7 from one of its global hosting centres. The solution consists of multiple, fully integrated scanning engines, working together to scan files as they enter the system whether it is via an e-mail, Internet download or instant messaging. The scanning engines can be updated multiple times per day to protect against new malware. The solution also monitors critical system components to protect against unknown malware tampering with the system.
F-Secure has been following the online gaming industry very carefully and sees that there is a great need for a security solution to stem the problems of hackers and phishing scammers stealing game players points and online weapons and reselling them on online trading sites. For this reason it is important to have a flexible solution matching the complex gaming environment while not slowing down the performance of the computers. As and when needed, it is also important to be able to make changes to the security level of the protected computers. From now on, Gamania's customers will get a safe online experience and peace of mind against all kinds of security problems and can be sure that they will always get the latest available protection updates for the computer(s).
Pamela Chu, Sales Director, Greater China at F-Secure said, Our cooperation with Gamania is a significant milestone in the history of F-Secure. By entering the Taiwanese market we have crossed a new threshold geographically and numerically in terms of Service Provider partners. Added to this, the inclusion of such a large and reputable online gaming company to our list of partners signals a new horizon for our data security business. We look forward to many years of fruitful cooperation with Gamania.
William Chen, COO of Gamania said, We are delighted to enter into business with F-Secure. The provision of F-Secure’s custom data security solution will provide a transparent and fully automated layer of security ensuring peace of mind with our customers and a smooth online experience.
F-Secure is a pioneer in the area of offering security as a service together with service providers in Europe and North America. During the past 10 years F-Secure has been focusing on the enterprise solutions in the Asia region. In 2005 the solution portfolio was expanded and the service solutions are now offered also to service providers in Asia. F-Secure offers service provider partners a very flexible subscription management platform and processes. Currently 100 Service Providers around the world have acknowledged F-Secure's leading position in this field by selecting F-Secure’s solution.
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/
About Gamania
With its headquarters located in Taipei, Taiwan, Gamania Digital Entertainment Inc. (Gamania) publishes and develops online interactive entertainment contents. Spanning across markets in Greater China, Japan and Korea, along with the proprietary GASH virtual bank system, Gamania has built up the largest online gaming community with over 8.61 million members. Providing services for MMOG titles including, Lineage, Lineage II, EverQuest, Seal Online and numerous casual gaming titles, Gamania hosts a wide array of digital entertainment under its leading service platform.
Foreseeing the potential of combine gaming with animation, Gamania is also developing and integrating animation projects. Gamania is committed to a continual innovative strategy coupled with a resource-integration model, and with our passionate creativity, manage a new creative cultural industry business model to expand the scope and value of the digital entertainment industry.
Gamania strives to become the leading brand in international digital entertainment, putting every effort into bringing Asia’s creative cultural industry to the world, thereafter using our visionary influence to bring readily accessible entertainment to our daily lives.
For more information
Kalle Korpi, Vice President, Service Provider Business
Mob:040 510 2585
Fax: 09 2520 5018
email: firstname.lastname@f-secure.com
