The US-based PC WORLD –magazine has selected the 50 most important people on the Web. F-Secure's Chief Research Officer Mikko Hyppönen is rated as #43 on the list.
Mikko Hyppönen has worked in the IT security business since
1991. Under his leadership F-Secure research teams have stopped
several worldwide computer virus epidemics. This has earned
F-Secure an international reputation as a very fast and reliable
antivirus company. Mikko Hyppönen has been giving speeches around
the globe and he has been a visible IT security spokesperson in
major media, including CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal and
Newsweek. He has also written articles for publications like
Scientific American and Foreign Policy.
The PC WORLD article can be found here:
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,129301/printable.html
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. 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:
Jaana Sirkiä, Communications Manager
Tel. +358 40 030 3096
Email: firstname.lastname@f-secure.com
