F-Secure Mobile Filter

Today's challenges

”The most worrying scenarios in this front are not coming from the stereotypical virus writer, i.e. the bored teenage kid, but from more organized parties. In the PC world, spam and online crime are behind most of the largest worm outbreaks and the same phenomenon could repeat in the mobile world.”

Mikko Hyppönen, Director of Anti-Virus Research, F-Secure

As even the very basic mobile phones are equipped with a capability to run applications, the threat of malicious content is increasing rapidly. At the same time the phones have features that enable end-users to browse the Internet and download applications from any website. As subscribers are increasingly demanding direct access to the Internet, operators have to find a way to offer safe and secure browsing services.

The solution

F-Secure Mobile Filter is a content security solution for operator's value added services layer. It offers operator and service providers means for filtering content in order to block harmful software in the network before entering the mobile phones. Being a gateway solution F-Secure Mobile Filter allows truely transparent protection for every device in the network; no software is installed nor needed in the mobile device protected.

Key features

F-Secure Mobile Filter offers control point for the operator:

• Increased security of downloaded content
• Decreased support and repudiation costs due to blocking of hostile content and malfunctioning applications
• Decreased terminal downtime
• Secured browsing and downloading services help maintaining high brand value
  
  

Core features:

• On-the-fly filtering of malicious content based on latest information provided by F-Secure Anti-Virus Research
• Operator customizable user messages on found content issues
• Logging and alerting of scanning events
• Scalable and fault tolerant operation
• Administration through secure web console
• Separate roles for maintenance: root, administrator and view
• No software is needed in the mobile device.
• Operator customizable blacklisting of sites, URLs, files, and file types.