Data Fellows' F-Secure Internet Security Software is the Grand Prize Winner of the ITEA'96 contest.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1996--Data Fellows of San Jose and Helsinki, Finland is the Grand Prize Winner of the premier ITEA'96 contest for its F-Secure Internet Security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. Software product line. On 25th of November, the ITEA'96 Executive Jury, consisting of leading European executives from industry and university made the nomination. The ITEA/Euro-CASE Secretariat received 253 applications from 25 European countries. F-Secure products, based on industry-leading SSH (Secure SHell) A security protocol for logging into a remote server. SSH provides an encrypted session for transferring files and executing server programs. Also serving as a secure client/server connection for applications such as database access and e-mail, SSH supports a encryption technology, provide exceptionally strong encryption An encryption method that uses a very large number as its cryptographic key. The larger the key, the longer it takes to unlawfully break the code. Today, 256 bits is considered strong encryption. As computers become faster, the length of the key must be increased. , cryptographic host authentication, and integrity protection for popular TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. applications used on the Internet and Intranets. F-Secure products work with Windows, Macintosh and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). computers and they are available world-wide. Thousands of organizations count on SSH technology to protect their business assets. The SSH technology used in the F-Secure product family is an extraordinary innovation by any standards. It has become the de-facto standard for Internet encryption in 12 months. (1) It is estimated that by 1997, there will be 75 million users connected to the Internet. More than 50 million of these users will be newcomers, having joined the Internet during 1996. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. estimations made by different consulting companies the number of Internet users will double during 1997, reaching 150 million. Furthermore, the recent study by the Yankee Group shows business-to-business Internet commerce will surge to $134 billion by 2000. The major obstacle to the realization of these projections is the lack of data security in the Internet. Security, more increasingly world-wide as trade barriers vanish, is vital specially in electronic commerce and on the Intranets. Firewalls are not able to secure transactions made over publicly accessible networks such as the Internet. In the future Internet technology will be used in such fields as TV entertainment, telephones, Xerox machines, faxes and teller machines. All these and other usages of the Internet will need to incorporate strong crypto-technologies in order to be successfully deployed. Data Fellows Company Background Privately owned Data Fellows Ltd. is a leading technology provider of data security and groupware solutions for computer networks and desktop computers. Besides F-Secure products, Data Fellows' product line includes F-PROT Professional, one of the most respected anti-virus toolkits, and the revolutionary Vineyard groupware application for streamlining sales and marketing processes. The products are available world-wide in more than forty countries through Data Fellows and its business partners. -0- (1) According to a preliminary NLANR NLANR - National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (National Laboratory for Applied Network Research) research data the use of SSH clearly surpassed SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. , IPSEC, Telnet, X11 or Rlogin making it most widely used encryption solution on the Internet by volume. The research data is available at http://www.nlanr.net/NA/FIX/Stats/West/ CONTACT: Data Fellows Inc., San Jose Petri Laakkonen, 408/244-9090 Internet Email: f-secure-sales@DataFellows.com World Wide Web: http://www.DataFellows.com/ or The ITEA/Euro-CASE Secretariat, 33-1-4441-4394 World Wide Web: http://www.itea.tm.fr |
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