SK Telecom in Korea takes the lead in strengthening cloud security system to provide anti-virus services

January 19, 2012 South Korea's SK Telecom started providing antivirus services in the enterprise-specific cloud services this month 19th, and has begun to further strengthen the ' cloud security ' system.

The application of antivirus service is to strengthen the cloud technology by the "terminal, service platform, communication network," the Service Platform security services. Unlike the general computer-specific anti-virus software, the service platform uses anti-virus software primarily for enterprises with servers. Existing service platform with anti-virus software should be on a platform for the annual fee is 50~100 million, belong to a very expensive service. Therefore, most of the Korean service platform is not illegal use of unlicensed platform anti-virus software, is not to install any protection measures. In this case, Korea's domestic cloud anti-virus market has not been active development.

However, the Korean SK Telecom United Ms Company, through the service platform dedicated anti-virus software-' Forefront Endpoint homeowner ' Set up a virtual platform, so that the software can be installed in the system OS alone. This way the cost of using anti-virus software can be significantly reduced through new concession contracts. Users use the antivirus service on virtual platform VM, only 1000 won a month to use antivirus services such as search, block viruses, malicious code, and malware provided in the software.

When applying for a service platform antivirus software member, click on the ' T Cloud Biz ' screen to enter the additional service. The company that uses the cloud services of SK Telecom, the ' T Cloud Biz ', also provides the platform antivirus services to users who use Microsoft Windows as their platform for the system.

SK Telecom plans to provide the platform antivirus service, will then strengthen the communication network security services, thus the cloud technology security level of overall improvement. During the first half of the year, SK Telecom also planned to commercialize the functionality of a cloud firewall or intrusion detection system that blocks illegal links to external, internal communications networks.