New Delhi, November 15th, 2007: F-Secure Corporation today announced a partnership with Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services (B&TS), India’s largest private broadband and telephone service provider, to provide data security to the company’s broadband subscribers across the country. Under the agreement, Airtel will offer its broadband customers F-Secure’s award winning security solutions through the Airtel PC Secure service. The service offers clients a very high level of security, including proactive protection through F-Secure’s unique DeepGuard technology, parental control as well as protection from all of today’s most common data security threats including phishing, viruses, spyware, malware and Trojans – all integrated into one easy-to-use and automatically updated package.
F-Secure’s value added service will be integrated into the
monthly Internet subscription in a phased manner. In the first
phase the Airtel PC Secure service will be immediately offered to
Airtel broadband home users. The service for business users will be
available later. The Airtel PC Secure features can be made
available to Airtel broadband customers by subscribing to the
Airtel PC Secure service at an annual subscription charge.
Kimmo Alkio, President and CEO of F-Secure said, "F-Secure’s
partnership with Airtel is another important milestone for us in
India. Airtel has shown great forward thinking in the way it
approaches and sustains its customers. Their endeavor to provide
the power of limitless discovery on the Internet and 100% customer
satisfaction are values we strongly support. By offering superior
data security services to their customers we hope to bolster their
continued success."
He also added that "F-Secure has been the pioneer in providing
security as a service through ISP partners around the world. With
more than 160 ISP partners we are the leader in this market, and
will continue to focus on serving the growing demand for secure
Internet access."
Speaking about the partnership, Mr. Atul Bindal, President,
Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services, said, "Being a leading
service provider, we at Airtel are constantly taking initiatives to
raise the bar and be the first to make a better offering for our
Broadband and Voice customers. In today’s rapidly expanding online
environment, customers are increasingly facing threats from
viruses, spyware, hackers and other threats. Our alliance with
F-Secure is our endeavor to address the increasing security needs
of our customers and provide them with a safe online environment
while surfing the Internet."
The F-Secure Protection Service provides a complete and
easy-to-use protection against all Internet threats, whether they
are known or previously unidentified. It includes an award-winning
antivirus, an easy-to-use personal firewall and an advanced
antispyware feature. It also includes the F-Secure DeepGuard
technology, which constantly monitors software behavior on the
computer, ensuring that no malicious programs can take over the
computer even if no signature-based detection yet is available for
the attacking program. In addition, the product filters unwanted
spam and so-called phishing attempts from incoming e-mails, and
with the parental control, access to websites with questionable
content can be blocked.
About F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against
computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile
networks. F-Secure’s award-winning solutions are available as a
service subscription through more than 150 Internet service
providers and mobile operator partners around the world, making
F-Secure the global leader in this market. The solutions are also
available as licensed products through thousands of resellers
globally. F-Secure has received the Frost & Sullivan 2007 award
for Distribution Strategy Leadership. The company aspires to be the
most reliable security provider, helping make computer and
smartphone user’s networked lives safe and easy. This is
substantiated by the company’s independently proven ability to
respond faster to new threats than its main competitors.
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Finland, F-Secure has
been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999. The company has
consistently been one of the fastest growing publicly listed
companies in the industry. The latest news on real-time virus
threat scenarios is available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab
weblog at
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/ .
For more information, please contact:
F-Secure Corporation
Henrietta Malmari, Corporate Communicator
Tel. +358 9 2520 5315
Email:
firstname.lastname@f-secure.com
