AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, July 9 /PRNewswire/ --
- While European and North American Banks are Struggling on Security Issues, a Korean Software Company Successfully - for Many Years Already - Delivers Online Security for Banking, e-Commerce and Governments in Asia and Latin America.
While in Europe and North America client level security is a hotly discussed topic, banks are struggling with the question how to offer clients a solution at customer level. This solution should be in addition to regular desktop products. AhnLab, a Korean company famous for its V3 anti virus engine, is successfully offering Online Security for a secure connection between a customer and a company's website. Customers need to install software from a bank, e-commerce of government website in order to obtain an instant and real-time secure protection.
'It is not a question if, but much more a question when to offer the solution to end users, according to Peter Oh, CEO of AhnLab.' He is most surprised that European and US banks are so hesitant. AhnLab has already proven that AOS does the job, securing the connection on multilevel on-hacking, phishing and man-in-the-middle. It has proven this at more than 100 companies, serving over 20 million clients. AhnLab started in Latin America providing AOS for the largest bank in Mexcio (Banamex - Citi Group) and Bank Santander with AOS. The list of companies using AOS is impressive and it has been steadily growing since the introduction in 2001. Next, banking AOS is used for e-commerce and governments as well. JCom, the largest e-commerce website in Japan uses AOS.
AhnLab claims to have a lead on the competition. This year AhnLab launched a security browser. In Asia companies are suffering from a new hacking method called memory hacking, which can be secured by AhnLab's Secure browser. It is only a matter of time before memory hacking is an issue in the rest of the world, says Peter Oh.
'In the world of online security there are many incorrect assumptions, and many different solutions are offered. But most of them cover only a part of the problem and do not offer a fundamental solution. It seems a lot of IT companies offer one or more solutions for hacking, phishing and man-in-the-middle, but if you compare these individual solutions with each other or with AOS, and take the time to go in-depth on technology, you will discover a surprising amount of differences, according to Hyuk Brands, Director of SQNetworks a Dutch based IT Technology distributor introducing AOS in Europe this year.
Signals are clear. To the great surprise of many in the banking business ING Direct is testing Trusteer's product Report. If all goes well, ING Direct reported it is planning to offer the Trusteer solution to 14.000.000 clients globally. ING Direct is choosing to take control of the security for their customers. AhnLab was very much surprised by the announcement of Trusteer and will contact ING Direct on short notice to inform CIO Rudy Wolf about AOS. Apart from the fact that ING Direct is testing the Trusteer solution it is most of all a good signal that taking control over the security on client level is inevitable. Many banks are hesitant because they fear an overload of requests for support. According to Hyuk Brands figures of what AhnLab has experienced so far based on a solid amount of implementation, show that this fear is not necessary at all.
Starting 2008, AOS is supported in Europe by IT Technology Distributor SQNetworks based in the Netherlands.
General information AhnLab:
For interviews or additional information contact Paul Kwak at AhnLab +82-2-21816 ywkwak@ahnlab.com or Sang Hyuk Brands (SQNetworks, The Netherlands +31651399151) hbrands@sqnetworks.com
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