F-Secure`s "Security as a Service" selected for Ensim`s ServerXchange Application Partner Program

JSE-listed Y3K Group Security Division (Gas Software) the sole distributor for Data Secure Corporation (previously known as Data Fellows Finland) in Africa, today announced that F- Secure Corporation has joined Ensim Corporation`s Application Partner Program. The arrangement calls for incorporating F- Secure`s renowned "Security as a Service " offering into Ensim`s ServerXchange service deployment platform.

Companies needing to grow their businesses faster and more reliably are rapidly seeking application outsourcing alternatives. While strategically expedient, outsourcing also demands the best solutions throughout the infrastructure, from networking through applications, and including perhaps the most critical aspect, the integrity of systems, applications, and data itself.

Responding to the overwhelming demand for outsourced services from small and medium-sized businesses Ensim developed a software platform, ServerXchange, that can be used by ISPs, ASPs and other providers to rapidly and cost- effectively deploy and manage these outsourced application services. This solution has been architected to be highly scalable and automated.

"Security as a Service" enables customers to secure the entire enterprise transparently, through their service provider. In choosing F-Secure`s technology as one of the key building blocks of its ServerXchange platform, Ensim will allow ISPs` customers to offer secure remote administration functionality as a monthly service.

Y3K`s Sales Director, Grayford Holton said, "Ensim`s unique deployment platform for service providers is a perfect fit for F- Secure`s "Security as a Service" offering. With this offering, customers are assured a secure connection while transmitting confidential data over the Internet. Furthermore, this is done automatically and is totally transparent to the customer, ensuring that security is never breached."

Ensim`s ServerXchange is a complete service deployment platform that allows an ISP to transform a set of physical servers into "private servers", each for a different customer, that are secure, isolated and assigned a guaranteed set of system resources. Each customer can choose from a set of application suites that can be hosted on a private server.

The ServerXchange product suite also includes a set of comprehensive tools for the operations, administration and management of private servers, applications and customers.

Ken Fehrnstrom, President and CEO of Ensim, said, "ISPs are looking to capture the fast-growing application outsourcing market. By integrating ServerXchange with world-class solutions and applications, such as F-Secure`s "Security as a Service", we are able to provide ISPs and their customers a complete solution from which they can deploy applications securely, quickly and easily."