IT Security

Cyber detection

by Mark Rowe

The telecoms firm BT has launched BT Assure Cyber, to offer monitoring, detection and protection against cyber threats.

According to the company BT Assure Cyber brings together event data and telemetry from sources including business systems and traditional security controls. Vulnerabilities and incidents which would previously have taken days, even weeks, to investigate and respond to, can now be identified and acted on at once the firm says.

BT says that its product uses a number of analytics engines to detect subtle threats. It then puts those threats into context within the array of events presented to cyber defence analysts that would otherwise distract attention from priority incident analysis.

Mark Hughes, pictured, president of BT Security, said: “The traditional security perimeter has dissolved. Cloud computing and mobile devices have the potential to make organisations more agile, efficient and competitive. They also introduce a multiplicity of new security risks. These developments take place in an environment where organic growth, mergers and acquisitions, changes in suppliers and adoption of new technologies make it increasingly difficult to assess an organisation’s exposure to the global cyber threat landscape. That changing business environment can hinder the understanding of security posture, including technical and non-technical procedures and controls that protect an organisation from internal and external threats. As innovation in technology accelerates, so must innovation and investment in the security controls that protect sensitive corporate assets from cyber-attack. Helping organisations master that changing cyber threat landscape is at the core of the BT Assure Cyber proposition. It is all about rethinking the risk.”

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