Leading Vendor of Endpoint Cybercrime Prevention Solutions Names Industry Veteran to Manage in-Country Operations     

 BOSTON, Aug. 16, 2012 – Trusteer, the leading provider of endpoint cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced that it has established operations in Japan to meet growing demand among financial institutions and enterprises for its fraud prevention and endpoint protection products. The company also appointed Norio Miyazawa as Country Manager for Trusteer Japan. Mr. Miyazawa, who has more than 10 years of financial and fraud prevention solution experience with Actimize Japan, SuperDerivatives Japan and Algorithmics Japan, will head up the company’s Japanese operations.

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“Financial institutions and enterprises in Japan are faced with the same malware attacks and account takeover threats as their counterparts in the rest of the world and are looking for effective ways to prevent cyber fraud, corporate data theft and advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks,” said Rakesh K. Loonkar, President of Trusteer. “Trusteer is committed to meeting the needs of Japanese financial institutions and enterprises. Norio Miyazawa has the experience and relationships to help us grow our business in this important market.”

 Hundreds of organizations and tens of millions of end users rely on Trusteer to protect their web applications, computers and mobile devices from online threats that are invisible to legacy security solutions. Trusteer solutions target the root cause of Cybercrime, advanced malware and phishing, and enable accurate prevention, detection and removal of these threats.

 Trusteer Japan will offer the following products for financial institutions and enterprises:

 Trusteer Pinpoint: clientless cloud-based service which allows financial institutions to detect and mitigate malware attacks, phishing, and account takeover activity.

 Trusteer Rapport: client-based endpoint protection against financial malware and phishing attacks that prevents fraud and account takeover.

 Trusteer Rapport for Enterprise: client-based endpoint protection for managed and unmanaged employee devices that prevents keylogging, screen capturing and application tampering for protection against advanced malware and APTs.

 Trusteer Mobile: client-based endpoint protection for mobile devices that prevents malware from infecting and hijacking devices. Trusteer Mobile also provides out-of-band authentication for secure transaction authorization and enables users to lockdown their online bank account when not in use.

About Trusteer

Boston-based Trusteer is the leading provider of endpoint cybercrime prevention solutions that protect organizations against financial fraud and data breaches. Hundreds of organizations and millions of end users rely on Trusteer to protect their computers and mobile devices from online threats that are invisible to legacy security solutions. Trusteer’s Cybercrime Prevention Architecture combines multi-layer security software with real-time threat intelligence to achieve sustainable protection against malware and phishing attacks and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Global organizations such as HSBC, Santander, The Royal Bank of Scotland, SunTrust and Fifth Third use Trusteer’s solutions and  leading online banking providers such as First Data, Harland Financial Solutions, Intuit and S1 integrate with Trusteer to provide world-class protection for financial institutions of all sizes. www.trusteer.com.