BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trusteer, the leading provider of endpoint cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced that it has established a sales and service center in Beijing to meet growing demand from financial institutions in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for its fraud prevention and endpoint protection products.

The company has appointed Mr. William (Xiaoqiang) Wei as country manager for Trusteer in China. Mr. Wei has more than 15 years of experience in information security and financial fraud prevention. He has held sales, business development, marketing and professional services positions with Entrust China and Venusense. Mr. Wei holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Applied Software from Lanzhou University and earned an MBA from Peking University and Vlerick Leuven, Gent management school.

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“In China, just like the rest of the world, financial institutions and enterprises face the same malware attack and account takeover threats. Trusteer’s proven, cost effective, easy to deploy and manage technologies provide clear and measurable protection against advanced malware,” said Rakesh K. Loonkar, President of Trusteer. “In response to extraordinary demand for Trusteer cybercrime prevention solutions, we plan to aggressively scale operations in China from our Beijing headquarters. William Wei, who will lead Trusteer operations in China, is a proven leader who has the industry experience and relationships to build our business in this large and growing market.”

“I am excited about the opportunity to deliver Trusteer’s proven cybercrime prevention solutions and expertise to customers in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong,” said William Wei, Country manager for Trusteer in China. “Trusteer is making significant investments to provide dedicated sales, service and development services to the entire region.”

Trusteer protects hundreds of organizations and tens of millions of end users around the world from online threats that are invisible to legacy security solutions. The company’s massively scalable malware detection, prevention and removal solutions can address the huge volume of applications, computers and mobile devices used in China. Trusteer uses real-time intelligence from millions of endpoints to detect and adapt to emerging malware and phishing attacks, and instantly protect customers against threats detected anywhere in the world.

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

Trusteer Pinpoint Account Takeover (ATO) Detection: clientless service that correlates multiple fraud risk indicators including device ID, malware infections and phishing incidents to conclusively detect account takeover attempts.

Trusteer Pinpoint Malware Detection: clientless service which allows financial institutions to accurately detect devices infected with Man-in-the-Browser malware when they try to access online banking sites.

Trusteer Rapport: client-based endpoint protection against financial malware and phishing attacks. Trusteer Rapport detects, stops and removes financial malware from end user computers; and alerts users and their financial institutions of phishing incidents and compromised credentials.

Trusteer Mobile: fraud risk detection and prevention for mobile devices using a combination of a mobile security SDK, secure mobile browser and mobile risk engine. 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.

Trusteer Apex: Endpoint protection software that stops APTs and targeted attacks on employee devices. Trusteer Apex prevents zero-day exploits from compromising employees’ PCs and the exfiltration of credentials and data to hackers. It can be deployed, at scale, on both managed and unmanaged devices.

About Trusteer

Boston-based Trusteer is the leading provider of endpoint cybercrime prevention solutions that protect organizations against financial losses and data breaches. Hundreds of organizations and millions of end users rely on Trusteer to protect managed and unmanaged endpoints against exploitation and compromise by online threats that are invisible to legacy security solutions. Global organizations such as HSBC, Santander, The Royal Bank of Scotland, SunTrust and Fifth Third are among Trusteer’s customers. www.trusteer.com.