Though health and safety remains a priority, attracting and retaining skilled workers is becoming increasingly important. The industry needs 76,000 additional people every year and so taking advantage of the talent emerging from abroad and the ability to attract and retain women will be essential.

Companies face other challenges too - evidence suggests language barriers and poor training cause migrants to suffer more on-site accidents than British workers; the Corporate Manslaughter Bill makes prosecution easier and penalties stiffer; terrorist threats to high-profile buildings mean architects must start to  include physical security in the design; and corporate fraud is on the rise.

We can help your company with the IT systems and network infrastructure that will enable you to better manage risk, increase the security of your information and people whilst at the same time, satisfying  your compliance obligations.

Improve identity and access management

Protect your business and empower your people

While it’s imperative to protect your business against ID theft and fraud, it’s also vital to be able to share data and systems with the people you trust. This is increasingly important when business depends on flexible working, online services, and collaborative relationships with customers and suppliers.

With BT identity and access management services you can identify and authorise customers, partners and employees with confidence. Through policy, process and technology, we’ll work with you to provide safer access, meet regulatory requirements, empower your mobile workforce, and expand your business online.

BT has over ten years experience delivering global identity and access management services. For example, we worked with TD Waterhouse to transform authentication for new customer accounts – reducing validation time from hours to minutes.

Manage risk and compliance

Empower your business to grow with effective IT governance

Managing risk and compliance isn’t just about dealing with legislation and security threats. It’s about creating a framework for IT governance that empowers your company to grow. Companies with effective IT governance strategies tend to be more profitable, have better credit ratings, and enjoy increased confidence from customers, investors and other key stakeholders.

BT will work with your business to manage compliance across your networked IT infrastructure, and enable you to understand and manage the risks associated with operating in a networked environment. We have extensive experience designing, delivering and managing effective IT governance frameworks, encompassing processes, services and solutions such as the BT Risk Cockpit™ – a unique executive dashboard and reporting tool.

You can benefit from our own experience as a highly regulated business, operating across multiple geographies and compliance regimes.

Optimise network-centric security

Protect your business, your data and your reputation

In a networked operating environment, more information is available to more users, including an increasing number of people outside your organisation. The challenge is keeping your data secure, ensuring the right people have access to the information they need, and being able to anticipate and respond to security threats – from viruses and ad-hoc attacks, to organised criminal activity.

BT provides an extensive range of technologies, professional services and managed services to optimise security for your networked business. We’ll work with you to assess security threats, build layered defences into your networked IT and communication systems, and provide realtime security management and monitoring. As a result, you’ll be better able to anticipate and respond to threats, provide secure access to information and services, and protect your operations, your data, and your reputation.

Large organisations across the world trust BT as their security partner, including Unilever and CLSA. We have security accreditations from trusted organisations including FIRST, CERT, FIPS, and NSA and are compliant with key industry standards including ISO 27001 and ISO 17799.