Microsoft has chosen security services provider F-Secure as the first data security vendor for its Windows Home Server.
Windows Home Server is an upcoming Microsoft solution to help families easily centralize, share and protect their digital assets, such as photos, music and videos.
“We are pleased to work with F-Secure to help customers secure their digital memories and experiences,” says Steven VanRoekel, director of Windows Server Solutions at Microsoft.
F-Secure will provide protection for the precious and often irreplaceable content of the digital home on the Windows Home Server solution. It will also offer protection against virus and spyware attacks, guards against riskware and scans for hidden malicious software(rootkit protection). The F-Secure solution keeps itself automatically up-to-date with the latest protection against new threats and needs no user intervention. This ensures that home users can rely on Windows Home Server and can take full advantage of its data centralization and protection capabilities.
“This collaboration fits well in our product portfolio and we are proud to work with Microsoft to offer customers a solution to support Windows Home Server. We look forward to a continued strong cooperation with Microsoft,” said Kimmo Alkio, CEO at F-Secure Corporation.
In related news, F-Secure has unveiled the newest addition in its family of corporate data protection solutions: F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange Version 7.
The new tool will ensure that all the users connected to Microsoft’s email gateway can receive, open and send emails without worrying about viruses, worms or other types of malware. The optional anti-spam module increases the productivity by stopping the unwanted spam emails already at the gateway level.
“The basis of the development was a full compatibility with Microsoft Exchange 2007. The new 64-bit architecture itself means higher performance and cost-efficiency. F-Secure has designed the new version 7 solely and specifically to support these benefits,” said Ari Alakiuttu, Vice President, Products and Services at F-Secure Corporation.
“In addition the new solution includes F-Secure’s award winning technologies in providing the highest level of protection against both existing and new, unknown threats. We truly believe that F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange 7 is one of the best security packages for Microsoft Exchange 2007.”
The solution offers high protection against security threats on all storage and transport server roles of Exchange Server 2007, these being Edge, Hub and Mailbox/Public Folder servers. The 64-bit architecture and its benefits in memory handling increase the overall performance and cost-efficiency of the solution.
With F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange 7, anti-virus protection is proactive, efficient and always up-to-date. In addition to known viruses, the product recognizes new, unknown viruses based on typical features of viruses. IT management can also protect the network against rapidly spreading viruses, worms and Trojans by enabling e-mail filtering based on file types, names or key words.
The solution combines in a unique way ease of use with the powerful features needed in enterprise environments. Corporate customers who do not have large technical staffs available will appreciate the simple installation and administration together with an easy-to-use web user interface. The re-designed user interface (GUI) is even more intuitive and user-friendly than before.
Advanced users and large customers benefit from the powerful central management tool--F-Secure Policy Manager—which is included in the price of the solution and can handle all sizes of customers from SMBs to large corporations. |
