Monday, 28 January 2008

F-Secure & Sony Ericsson Partner to Deliver Mobile Security for UIQ

F-Secure and Sony Ericsson announced last week of a new partnership aimed at supplying mobile security to Sony Ericsson smartphones. The F-Secure Mobile Security for UIQ brings to modern smartphones, the same kind of protection given to personal computers...

F-Secure and Sony Ericsson announced last week of a new partnership aimed at supplying mobile security to Sony Ericsson smartphones.

The F-Secure Mobile Security for UIQ brings to modern smartphones, the same kind of protection given to personal computers (PC).

According to F-Secure, the growing PC-like usage of smartphones will drive the services of the mobile internet and it is important for the industry now to put in place safeguards that will prevent a similar development of the threat situation as has been seen with PC’s.

The F-Secure Mobile Security for UIQ combines an integrated antivirus and firewall. With similar solutions already available for S60 and Windows Mobile it completes the F-Secure offering of award-winning solutions for the most popular platforms in the rapidly growing smartphone market.

"We are very proud and happy about the UIQ product and the co-operation. Our complete mobile product range will enable us to continue our leadership in the area of mobile security. We have seen increasing demand for mobile security solutions also from mobile operators, who want to offer their customers a secure user experience in all situations and on all platforms. We have products for all the major open smartphone platforms at the moment, and we will continue to expand our security solutions offering to meet the growing needs in the market ", says Samu Konttinen, Vice President, Mobile Solutions Business Unit, F-Secure.

A trial version of the F-Secure Mobile Secruity is now available in select Sony Ecrisson UIQ devices. It will also be available for subscription through the F-Secure Mobile eStore.