F-Secure unveils consumer IT security products

F-Secure has launched its innovative family of security products for connected life. The new Wellbeing 2009 family of consumer IT security products uses power of the network to block new, unknown threats in minutes-globally.

Wellbeing 2009 family of consumer IT security products deliver fast protection against new online threats. Introducing F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0 technology, which recognizes both safe and malicious software instantaneously using a real-time protection network,
Instead of just using one-way comparisons of a suspicious program against white lists and black lists, the F-Secure real-time protection network uses intelligent nodes with behavioral analysis capability to greatly increase the efficiency of this 'in-the-cloud' approach.

DeepGuard is a behavior-based detection engine designed to block new malware from infecting a system by analyzing how the file behaves when it is executed on the client computer. DeepGuard 2.0 adds the real-time protection network capability to the local analysis. When a new potentially malicious program appears anywhere in the world, the first participating F-Secure protected computers that encounter it take a fingerprint of the file and instantly query F-Secure's highly automated security labs to see if the file can be allowed to run.
“We're introducing another industry first with the real-time protection network that complements the traditional reactive and proactive technologies. It dramatically shortens the time it takes to protect our customers from the moment we find completely new malware,” says Pirkka Palomäki, CTO, F-Secure Corporation. “When our customers try to run suspicious programs, the trustworthiness of such files is automatically queried from our servers-in fractions of a second. No other vendor has such 'in-the-cloud' protection for consumers deployed globally,” said Palomäki.