In co-operation with long term partner Baltic Computer Systems
(BCS) F-Secure today announced that it has successfully started to
roll out its Service Platform for Enterprises in Estonia with
Tallinn City Education Department.
The Department with 5000 desktops has adopted the service which
includes not only desktop protection, but also comprehensive
protection for servers and gateway products for a three-year
period.
The service-centric solution enables enterprises such as Tallinn
City Education Department to use the full range of F-Secure
solutions without the need for initial license investments as all
solutions are provided as a service by BCS.
Customers will benefit from enhanced flexibility and the
high-end security expertise provided by BCS, powered by F-Secure
technologies. The service is delivered using F-Secure Service
Platform for Enterprises and it consists of a wide range of
anti-virus and intrusion prevention technologies.
This solution ensures that service providers, such as BCS, can
offer their customers a highly comprehensive security service with
up-to-date protection and automatic virus updates working
transparently in the background for their desktops, remote users,
servers and gateway traffic.
"We are happy to have such a major customers as Tallinn City
Education Department relying on us as their partner and on our
award winning technologies. As threats in the Internet keep on
evolving and are today often mastered by organised criminals, we
need to be able to continue providing fast response against new
threats and to meet the criteria of versatile customers ranging
from small companies to large enterprises. Security-centric
solutions are one of our key strategies to make our technologies
available in an easy and scalable way to all our customers and to
continue our strong growth in the AV business,” says Ari Alakiuttu,
Vice President, Corporate Programmes.
"We have had a successful partnership with F-Secure for more
than ten years already and now as an increasing number of companies
are looking for services as an alternative for license purchase,
this is a very natural step for us to sign on as an F-Secure
service partner. The F-Secure Service Platform for Enterprises
enables us to broaden our offering in to comprehensive service
packages that scale from just a few user installations to major
enterprise deployments, such as Tallinn City education system. As
F-Secure is already a market leader in the Estonian market, we have
strong faith in this service-centric approach being the next step
of protection which many companies are looking into," says Ants
Sild, CEO of BCS.
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 and 2005 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 Deutsche Telekom, France
Telecom, 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:
Samu Konttinen, Regional Manager F-Secure Corporation
Mobile: +358 (0)50 382 5995
Fax: +358 (0)9 2520 5004
Ants Sild, CEO, CEO Baltic Computer Systems
Mobile: +(372) 5019680
Fax: +(372) 6998182
www.bcs.ee
