F-Secure, a leading provider of data security solutions, today
announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the
Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s Enterprise Antivirus Magic
Quadrant*. According to Gartner’s definition, visionaries invest in
the leading/"bleeding"-edge features that will be significant in
the next generation of products and will give buyers early access
to improved security and management.
The definition continues that visionaries can affect the
course of technological developments in the market, but they lack
the execution influence to outmanoeuvre challengers and leaders. It
concludes that clients pick visionaries for best-of-breed features,
and in the case of small vendors, they may enjoy more personal
attention.
"We consider our positioning in the visionaries quadrant by
Gartner as confirmation of F-Secure’s ability to interpret the data
security market accurately and bring solutions that add innovation
and long term value to our customers," said Risto Siilasmaa,
President and CEO of F-Secure. "We intend to continue to prove
again and again that good ideas and their timely execution count
more than scale or marketing hype. Key to this is our strong
emphasis in delivering such award-winning software as F-Secure
Client Security and such technologies as F-Secure BlackLight, and
the enhanced HIPS feature, F-Secure DeepGuard in our forthcoming
consumer product, F-Secure Internet Security 2007."
* Magic Quadrant Disclaimer
The Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Antivirus 2006, by Arabella
Hallawell and Peter Firstbrook is copyrighted 31 August 2006 by
Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is
a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific
time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors
measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service
depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology
users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders"
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool,
and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner
disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose.
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:
Päivi Juolahti, Industry Intelligence Manager
Tel. +358 (0)9 2520 5293
Email : firstname.lastname@f-secure.com
