Smartphones are our most personal computers in today’s increasingly connected life. They have also become an integral part of corporate networks through common usage of VPN and push-email solutions. Smartphones need to be secured as part of the company’s IT infrastructure. Recognition of this is at the core of F-Secure Mobile Security 5, a new version of the powerful smartphone security solution by F-Secure, the global leader in protecting mobile devices.
Smartphones often contain highly confidential information, including messages and pictures of our loved-ones, banking details, emails, business projects and other valuable data. F-Secure Mobile Security enables smartphone users to enjoy the full potential of their devices without worrying about threats to their own or their company’s privacy, safeguarding the privacy of data even in the unfortunate event that the phone is lost or stolen.
Samu Konttinen, Vice President of F-Secure’s Mobile Solutions Business Unit, says: “This launch is the first step in augmenting our leading anti-virus and firewall capabilities by introducing the anti-theft feature. Smartphone users want peace of mind when browsing the Internet and making financial transactions. They also need protection for their confidential data in case the mobile device is lost. F-Secure Mobile Security provides all this, with unrivaled ease-of-use.”
F-Secure Mobile Security introduces the new advanced anti-theft feature with remote lock, remote wipe and theft control functionalities. Remote lock can be used to lock the device to protect confidential information quickly and easily with a single SMS message. The theft control feature activates when the SIM card is changed by locking the device and sending the new SIM information to the owner. As an ultimate safety measure to prevent misuse, it is possible to erase all the data on the phone with remote wipe by sending an SMS message.
F-Secure Mobile Security also protects against spyware that may monitor and record all the actions on a mobile phone, including voice calls, SMS, multimedia and email messages. It seamlessly combines real-time antivirus protection with a customizable firewall to make the phone completely safe against mobile malware.
An advanced 2-layer update mechanism automatically retrieves the newest malware definitions and updates, whenever any data connection is used. The unique SMS update mechanism – patented by
F-Secure – ensures that critical updates are received even when a data connection is not available. F-Secure Mobile Security lives up to F-Secure’s track record of providing the fastest protection in the online world.
New F-Secure Mobile Security 5 will be available in December for smartphones using the S60 3rd edition through the F-Secure eStore (www.f-secure.com/estore), as well as many F-Secure partners. The software will also be available for the Windows Mobile platform in early 2009.
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F-Secure Mobile Security allows smartphone users to experience the full potential of their devices without the fear of mobile threats. The application combines real-time antivirus functionality with a firewall making the device completely safe in today’s connected lives. Technical savvy is not required when installing nor running F-Secure Mobile Security.
F-Secure Corporation is at the forefront of developing ‘in-the-cloud’ technology to fight cybercrime through object reputation analysis – a technology that has far-reaching implications in the security industry and beyond.
The Internet security industry needs the speed and power provided by cloud computing to be able to respond to the exponentially growing volume of cyber crime. F-Secure is committed to developing cloud computing and reputation-based services – harnessing the power of end-user systems and collaborative intelligence in the network to fight cybercrime. This creates a strong, trusted connection between the security provider and the end user, allowing F-Secure to offer unprecedented quality and speed of protection for its customers.
F-Secure launched its real-time protection network in September 2008. It is an implementation of the in-the-cloud reputation service, capable of supporting several types of security solutions. F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0, which combines local analysis of program behavior with the use of a real-time protection network for identifying both good and bad software, scored an industry first in the same month with its instant reaction times and global protection against new threats. This is important in today’s dramatically changed threat situation where the Internet is facing a deluge of new malware and variants that make traditional heuristics or signature-based solutions just too inefficient and slow.
Pirkka Palomäki, Chief Technology Officer at F-Secure, says: “Our real-time protection network is based on in-the-cloud computing. It has been designed to support a wider range of security services than just antivirus and F-Secure is now further enhancing many of its services to use the power of cloud computing.
Palomäki continues: “Looking towards the future, F-Secure’s real-time protection network has the architecture and potential for checking the reputation of any objects, such as applications, sites, documents or even phone numbers. It provides more nuanced information, for example whether an application is ‘productive’ or ‘violent’.”
This progression into cloud computing is natural for F-Secure and is considered critical for addressing future threats. F-Secure has been building in-the-cloud protection for years. Its first form has been the creation and maintenance of Network Operation Centers globally since 2001, which laid the groundwork for the real-time protection network. Actual in-the-cloud protection has been implemented since 2006 with F-Secure’s antiphishing services that use network-based verification of threats.
T. Sean Obrey, Head of ISP Business, says, “We have over 170 partners globally and network operation centers on all continents. These global networking services and solutions have been developed to support our business. It is very natural step for us to now provide our protection services, via our Service Provider partners, to their end customers using the cloud experience that we continue to develop.”
The F-Secure real-time protection network is currently being used by F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0 which is included in the F-Secure Internet Security 2009 and F-Secure Anti-Virus 2009 consumer security products, as well as the corporate F-Secure Client Security 8 solution and others being launched this year.
