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Free Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 for UniCredit Tiriac Bank SME Customers
Bucharest, 23 November 2009 - UniCredit Tiriac Bank signed an agreement with Kaspersky Lab Romania, through the Punkt NET supplier and in collaboration with MCM Serv, to supply 1,500 Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 licenses. The bank will offer the licenses for free to the first 1,500 SME customers who activate their online payment service.
UniCredit Tiriac Bank is the first Romanian bank to adopt a proactive policy towards protecting their customers against the risks of online crime, by offering free licenses for a security product.
"Banks are making ongoing efforts to secure their own Online Banking authentication and authorization infrastructure, but, as far as customers are concerned, initiatives were only informative until now," says Teodor Cimpoesu, Managing Director Kaspersky Lab Romania and Bulgaria. The extra step that we recommend to all the banks in Romanian having online banking services is to secure their customer area as well, which is most at risk from attacks," added Cimpoesu.
"The security of the online banking service is comprehensive because user access is only possible through the digipass devise that generates unique access codes, said Doina Costache, Head of Alternative Channels for UniCredit Tiriac Bank. "We took things a little bit further, thinking about what we can do to enhance the security of Internet use at home or in the office. Based on the way this new free facility is received, we will continue to develop the offer for our SME customers as well as for our individual customers," she added.
UniCredit Tiriac Bank and Kaspersky Lab signed a one year agreement, and the licences they offer during this period will be free of charge for the first 1,500 SME customers that request the Business NET online payment product. After the licenses expire, they can renew them for a special price, pre-established by the supplier.
Kaspersky Lab signed a similar partnership in the UK with Barclays, customers benefiting from free licenses when they subscribe to their online banking service. The success of this initiative led to the expansion of the programme internationally as many other banking institutions came to understand the security benefits that they can bring to customers.
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, the new complete security solution for individual users, integrates a set of innovative technologies, one of which is the Safe Run function, based on Sandbox technology - the only Internet Security programme product that offers this system. Safe Run enables users to run any new software in an isolated environment, protecting the operating system against any type of suspicious activities. According to statistics, the vulnerabilities of the operating systems and of the known applications are often exploited by hackers to attack the applications using the Internet, especially Online Payment facilities.
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