- BT announces new strategic security partnership with Google
Cloud, targeting a range of joint innovation opportunities.
- As a first step, BT becomes an official reseller of Google
Chronicle, including its Autonomic Security Operations
framework.
- The move builds on existing collaboration between the companies
across data, cloud migration, and AI programmes.
LONDON and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 11,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BT and Google Cloud today
announced a new partnership focusing on an enhanced commitment to
cybersecurity innovation. Serving customers in more than 180
countries and with a team of 3,000 security professionals, BT works
with the security industry's leading vendors to provide managed
security solutions to private and public sector organisations
around the world.
As part of the partnership, BT will become a managed services
delivery partner for Google's Autonomic Security Operations (ASO)
offering based on Google Chronicle. ASO is a holistic framework
that combines principles, practices, and tools that enable
organisations to take an adaptive and automated approach to threat
management. Underpinned by Chronicle's peta-byte scale detection, a
data lake powered by Google Cloud's data and analytics platform
BigQuery, and rich, compelling analytics via Looker, the solution
decreases the time to detect and respond to threats—which is
essential in the face of the increasing volume and complexity of
cyber-attacks.
Customers will benefit from the new partnership by gaining the
technological capabilities of Google Chronicle, combined with BT's
track record of delivering cybersecurity services to organisations
with complex estates and requirements. Customers will be supported
by experts from BT's Security Advisory Services team, who leverage
BT's deep experience in security operations and integration to help
organisations ensure that they have optimised their wider security
architecture to fully align with their priorities and ambition.
"Combining Google Chronicle's capabilities with BT's view of
global networks and experience of providing managed security
services is a really exciting prospect. The ASO solution will help
our customers to rapidly identify risks and automatically enhance
their cyber defences—providing the speed that's essential to
combating cyber-attacks. It represents the first step in our
partnership with Google Cloud on cybersecurity, with both companies
committed to providing new innovations and solutions that help
organisations stay ahead of an increasingly threatening cyber
threat landscape," said Tris Morgan,
Managing Director, Security at BT.
"Our partnership brings the best of BT's experience in deploying
big data-based security platforms with Google Cloud's innovative
security capabilities to help our multinational customers transform
their approaches to cyber risk management in the face of a rapidly
changing threat landscape," said Magali Bohn, Global Director,
Partnerships & Channels at Google Cloud Security.
The partnership builds on BT Group and Google's existing
relationship to house BT Group's data in Google Cloud to
support its analytics and AI ambitions. BT and Google Cloud will
also seek to incorporate solutions from Mandiant, a market leader
in threat intelligence solutions acquired by Google in 2022, as an
additional aspect of the partnership. Finally, BT is working with
Google Cloud to trial Google's Vertex AI and Duet AI
capabilities.
About Google Cloud
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to
digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver
enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge
technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably.
Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google
Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their
most critical business problems.
About BT
BT Group is the UK's leading provider of fixed and mobile
telecommunications and related secure digital products, solutions
and services. We also provide managed telecommunications, security
and network and IT infrastructure services to customers across 180
countries.
BT Group consists of three customer-facing units: Business
covers companies and public services in the UK and internationally;
Consumer serves individuals and families in the UK; Openreach is an
independently governed, wholly owned subsidiary wholesaling fixed
access infrastructure services to its customers - over 650
communications providers across the UK.
British Telecommunications plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of
BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of
the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on the London Stock
Exchange.
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