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Bredbandsbolaget first to offer automatic business IT security

F-Secures subscription security protects small and medium-sized business customers.

Helsinki, Finland - May 15, 2006 -- Bredbandbolagets Secure Business is the first service in Sweden to offer small and medium-sized businesses a subscription-based IT security solution. The service, which contains anti-virus, firewall, anti-spam and anti-spyware products, is supplied by F-Secure. A Web-based portal provides users with an easy, flexible and low cost way of administering a companys computer security. The campaign starts week 19 and costs 35 SEK per user per month, with a three-month free period.
The IT environment is becoming all the more complex and greater demands are being placed, mostly on a businesss IT security. This places a heavy burden on smaller businesses that dont have a dedicated security manager, says Johan Lindgren, CEO of Bredbandsbolaget. It must be easy to protect your business against viruses, trojans, worms and spy programs. With Secure Business our broadband is secured.

Bredbandsbolaget is an attractive partner for subscription-based security services, said Kina Persell, MD of F-Secure AB. Before there were no security solutions intended for small and medium-sized businesses. This means that a business either chose solutions intended for the home user or for larger businesses. As the first Internet Service Provider to offer an automatic security service to small and medium-sized businesses, Bredbandsbolaget is at the forefront with modern and attractive services.

Service providers, such as Internet Service Providers, are acquiring an increasingly important role as the applications market moves towards subscriptions. In the area of security there is a great future, particularly so in the business market. On average between eight and ten new viruses appear every day, and at the same time the threat scenario is increasing in complexity. This places great demands on users, and considering that an estimated one-in-ten business computers in Sweden are totally unprotected, this additional service is becoming ever more important.

Subscription-based security services also reduce the total cost of IT security. Today it is estimated that maintenance accounts for 80 percent of the total cost, and the remaining 20 percent are costs attributed to purchase of the software. Secure Business offers freedom from the inconvenience of managing licences and updates. Computers are automatically protected around the clock.

For more information about this service, please see http://www.bredbandsbolaget.se/foretag

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/

About Bredbandsbolaget

Bredbandsbolaget offers high-speed broadband for Internet access, telephony, digital-tv and add-on broadband services. We currently have 375,000 residential subscribers and more than 11,000 business subscribers, which makes us Swedens second largest broadband provider. Bredbandsbolaget is Swedens largest broadband telephony player with over 100,000 customers. The corporation was founded in 1998 and has some 335 employees. Bredbandsbolaget is a wholly owned subsidiary of Norwegian Telenor ASA. For further information, please see http://www.bredbandsbolaget.se

Source: F-Secure

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