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F-Secure joins ETIS to help
Europe’s telecom providers
secure smart homes
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ybersecurity provider, F-Secure, has
joined ETIS, an organisation that
facilitates cooperation between
companies working in the European
telecommunications sector. As an associate
member of ETIS, F-Secure hopes to
contribute its cybersecurity expertise to help
stakeholders collectively address security
challenges facing the telecommunications
industry and its customers.
F-Secure has over 20 years of experience in
partnering with operators to help address
consumers’ security-related pain points.
It delivers award-winning security and
privacy solutions to households all over the
world through its industry-leading global
network of over 200 telecommunications
companies. And according to F-Secure
Director of Business Development, Paul
Palmer, F-Secure’s role as a global leader in
delivering security via service providers leaves
it uniquely positioned to work with operators
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to tackle the security challenges posed by
the spread of insecure Internet-of-Things
(IoT) devices in people’s homes. as a platform for members to share ideas
and best practices, and collaborate on issues
that affect the entire industry.
“It’s no secret that the Internet-of-Things
devices flooding people’s homes aren’t built
to be secure. But it’s a tough problem for
your average household to solve on their
own because many of these devices can’t
run security software and we know they’re
looking to their current service providers for
solutions to this,” said Palmer. “Our members take security really at heart
and see it as an asset we have over other
players in the market. We are very happy
to count F-Secure as a member and we
will discuss security as an opportunity for
‘Innovating in a trusted Digital Economy’,
the theme of this year’s annual conference
on October 17–18 in Vienna,” said Wim De
Meyer, Managing Director of ETIS.
“It’s both a challenge and opportunity for
telecommunications companies and ETIS
is a perfect platform for us to share this
perspective with operators and work with
them to find practical solutions that help
people secure their connected homes.”
ETIS is a non-profit organisation founded
in 1991. As a community for European
telecommunication providers and
companies that work with them, it functions
F-Secure’s line of consumer security
solutions includes a comprehensive range
of security and privacy protection services,
as well as more unique offerings such as
F-Secure Connected Home Security – a
combination of different gateway and
endpoint protection technologies designed
to protect all the devices in modern homes,
including IoT devices that can’t run
traditional security applications. n
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