F-Secure

The F -Secure Corporation is a Finnish provider of IT security solutions and antivirus programs.

Business

The company was founded in 1988 by Risto Siilasmaa (born 1966). Today's CEO is Christian Fredrikson. Until 2000, only products bearing the name F -Secure, the company itself was renamed as Data Fellows Corporation. F -Secure has been listed since 1999 on the Helsinki Stock Exchange ( HEX) (WKN 928 744 ). The company has offices in over 60 countries and research institutions in Finland, Malaysia and the USA. In 2010, F -Secure entwirtschaftete a turnover of 130.1 million euros. The end of 2010 the company employed 835 employees.

The F of F -Secure, there are several variants of naming:

  • All employees at F -Secure / Data Fellows are [F ] ellows, ie partners, companions.
  • [F ] riðrik Skúlason had written a command-line based antivirus program, which later became the antivirus software F -Prot emerged ( this software already had the today valid F -Secure Logo )

Products

F -Secure was a pioneer in the use of multiple virus scanning engines in a single product. Different scan engines can be simultaneously used to monitor the data, so that the detection rate of malicious programs is significantly increased. Originally, the products of F -Secure took advantage of the scan engines of F -PROT the Icelandic manufacturer Frisk Software and AVP of the Russian provider Kaspersky Lab. In the current F- Secure solutions in addition to the virus scan engine Bitdefender F-Secure are self-developed search algorithms are used.

Another area in which the Finnish firm has played a pioneering role, was the detection and removal of kernel rootkits with Microsoft's Windows operating system. The technology was unveiled at the 2006 CeBIT in Hanover under the name Black Light. These examined the tool processes, folders, or files that are hidden from the user, and displays them with this additional information - such as when the come into the headlines in November 2005 CD copy, the Sony partly began in the United States. He used rootkit technology to hide itself from the PC owners.

The focus of F -Secure lies in the areas of virus protection and intrusion prevention - even though the company had made before 2004 mainly sell products to SSH encryption a name and it also received awards from the Finnish government. This division, however, was handed over to the American software manufacturer WRQ, Inc., to concentrate more on its core products. The current product portfolio includes solutions for protecting PCs, servers and mobile devices against viruses, worms and trojans, spam and phishing protection as well as software and appliances for the protection of e- mail and Internet gateways. The company F- Secure is known to be very fast to respond to the discovery of new viruses and to provide updates and removal tools. On its website, the company F-Secure also has a free online virus scan free PC Health Check and download a bootable Rescue CD. The target group are both home users and enterprises, as well as Internet service providers and mobile providers.

In August 2011, F -Secure has launched the first security services also on Facebook a program. Under the designation Share Safe users can access an application, check the links in messages and on the whiteboard on pests. According to the company recognizes F -Secure Safe Share all viruses and Trojans behind a link, which are also recognized by the desktop application. The Facebook app is currently only available in English.

Software

For home users

  • F -Secure Internet Security: A package for protection of home users PCs. It includes antivirus, anti-spyware, and spam protection.
  • F- Secure Anti -Virus: The antivirus company F -Secure is based on the so-called Deep Guard 2.0 technology. This is to ensure a fast response time for emergency virus outbreaks.
  • F- Secure Anti -Virus for Mac An antivirus program for Mac OS X devices.
  • F -Secure Mobile Security: Protects mobile phone against attack by viruses. Auto Update is held here on every kind of available data connection, which automatically detects the program. The program also has a built-in firewall and an anti -theft feature. The Anti -Theft feature is available free of charge as a separate program.
  • F -Secure Home Server Security: Protects all data automatically on the Windows Home Server. The program integrates seamlessly into the Windows Home Server and detects all types of malicious software. ( no longer available )

For companies

  • F -Secure Business Suite Business Suite is a complete security solution that meets the needs of companies of all sizes. In the Business Suite 's entire product portfolio for businesses is included.
  • F- Secure Anti -Virus for Servers: protection from connection of an infected client computer to the server the other computers on the network from infection.
  • F- Secure Anti -Virus for Workstations: Provides real- time protection against viruses for laptops and desktops.
  • F -Secure Internet Gatekeeper (Windows and Linux): Applies automatically virus protection and content filtering at the Internet gateway of the company.
  • F -Secure Protection Service for Business: complete package to protect businesses against threats from the web.

Services

Another important business area of F -Secure is an IT security as a service. To this end, the company offers a suitable platform for enterprises and service providers and service partners with whom they can provide their clients customized IT security services. According to the company F -Secure here has over 100 service partners under contract, most of which Internet Service Provider.

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