Mobile malware such as viruses, worms and trojans have become an increasing nuisance for smartphone users. Malware can cause unwanted billing, delete valuable information and even make the phone unusable. For businesses, mobile malware poses additional security risks that cause direct productivity losses and business continuity problems.

As smartphones are becoming more popular in SMBs and enterprises, protecting this new technology has become a challenge. In order to maintain the focus on their core business, SMB’s and enterprises are unable to expand their already overextended IT resources to face these arising mobile threats, so they instead purchase security for their mobile phones as a managed and outsourced service.

This results in new opportunities for managed service providers to be differentiated from the competition by their extension of the offerings beyond traditional IT security, and their popularity is increasing due to becoming a true value added provider.

Solution

F-Secure Service Platform for Mobile is the easiest and the most efficient way to offer managed security service for mobile technologies targeted at SMBs and enterprises. The solution provides real-time in-device protection for smartphones with automatic over-the-air antivirus updates through incremental SMS update mechanism or HTTPS connections.

For mobile devices with WLAN connectivity, an integrated firewall safeguards the mobile device from any type of attack, ranging from intrusion attempts of malware. With the management portal hosted by F-Secure, the managed service provider can easily verify the status of protection and wireless antivirus service subscription for the company smartphones.