March 17, 1997 Data Fellows and Nokia Secure Wireless Corporate Intranet Access - Improved security enables GSM operators to connect Intranets (Hannover, March 17, 1997) Data Fellows and Nokia Telecommunications have signed an agreement to integrate Data Fellows' award winning F-Secure VPN encryption software into Nokia's Artus wireless data networking solutions. The Nokia Artus solution enables GSM operators to offer secure corporate Intranet solutions, without the requirement of using costly leased lines to reach their corporate customers. "Weakness of remote access security has discouraged remote access to corporate networks. In partnership with Data Fellows we can now provide GSM operators with an IP networking solution which meets the strict security requirements of corporate IT managers. This means new business for GSM networks," said Petri Pöyhönen, Vice President, Wireless Data Server Systems at Nokia Telecommunications. "Intranet remote access outsourced to GSM operators represents an important market restructuring. In the context of Nokia's Artus Managed Internet Access Point (IAP) networking solution, we can see immediate potential of leveraging our encryption technology already widely used for LAN interconnect," said Risto Siilasmaa, Managing Director at Data Fellows. Data Fellows' F-Secure VPN encrypts and compresses TCP/IP packets transmitted over public data networks to private corporate networks. Military-strength cryptographic security of F-Secure VPN prevents malicious access to the transferred information. Encryption is implemented at transport layer and is thus transparent for applications. A major business potential for wireless operators is to further extend corporate Intranets to the world of wireless coverage. This enables businesses to increase their efficiency by ensuring their staff secure, wireless connectivity to their e-mail, groupware and corporate database resources. Remote access to corporate data resources has been traditionally implemented in corporate premises with dial-in modems. Corporate IT can now outsource this costly telecom access technology to GSM operators and operate in a clean IP protocol environment. Remote access becomes as simple as LAN interconnect. In the interest of future market compatibility, Data Fellows and Nokia are both committed to following the emerging open IP security standards. Data Fellows is a software development company with offices in San Jose, California, and Helsinki, Finland. Data Fellows is a technology leader in its major business areas of anti-virus, data security and cryptography software. F-secure products have won several awards over the past several months. These have included the HOT Product 1997 Award from Data Communication magazine, Best New Networking Product from LAN Magazine and the Grand Award in the European IT Prize competition. Data Fellows is privately held. Annual growth in net sales has been over 100% since the company was founded in 1988. Nokia is a Finland-based telecommunications group with a net sales of USD 8.5 billion in 1996. Nokia has approximately 31,000 employees world-wide. Nokia is one of the two largest GSM/DCS suppliers in the world and the leader in wireless data solutions. Nokia Telecommunications' Information Networking Systems division develops, implements, and markets systems based on Internet technologies to telecommunications operators. For more information, please contact: Mr. Jukka Kotovirta, Data Fellows Ltd. Tel. int. +358 40 588 3933, e-mail: jukka.kotovirta@datafellows.com Mr. Heikki Koskinen, Nokia Telecommunications Tel. int. +358 40 502 7967, e-mail: heikki.koskinen@ntc.nokia.com Ms. Arja Suominen, Nokia Telecommunications Tel. int. +358 9 511 38193, e-mail: arja.suominen@ntc.nokia.com Internet: http://www.datafellows.com/ http://ntc.nokia.com/ -- Ari.Hypponen@DataFellows.com, World-Wide Web http://www.DataFellows.com