Maintaining service and protecting people

There are many threats to your business. Theft and natural disaster can incapacitate your physical assets. Hackers, terrorists and criminals can undermine the security of your networks. Hazardous environments can endanger your lone workers. Identity thieves can undermine your income. Yet it’s tempting to see safety and security as an expense rather than as an investment that will protect your share price and competitive edge.

We help a number of the UK’s largest utilities companies to use Internet-enabled technologies to keep staff, networks and assets secure. This includes; controlling access and remote site surveillance, risk management and compliance with health and safety regulations; from countering identity theft to built-in disaster recovery. Because we understand your business requirements, we can ensure our cost-efficient IT infrastructure and technology solutions will help your business meet the security challenges you face today and tomorrow.

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.

Integrate your IP and physical security systems - utilities

Integrate your IP and physical security systems – utilities

Safeguarding people, premises and assets

For utilities, security has become a critical business issue. This is, in part, because of the rising threat of terrorist attack, but also due to the escalating price of copper, which has significantly increased copper theft. As growing competition puts a squeeze on profit margins, the security and continuity of supply is vital. Service downtime could cause blackouts or disrupt water supplies, not only resulting in social and economic consequences, but also damaging a utility’s reputation.

With stringent regulatory requirements to achieve, utilities increasingly need security and monitoring solutions that can deter even the most determined of intruders. Such solutions must effectively anticipate attacks, providing early alerts, yet distinguishing between true risks and false alarms.

BT offers a range of security solutions specifically for the utilities sector. We provide integrated security and telemetry offerings that can reduce manpower costs at remote sites and increase security effectiveness and incident response. Our secure networking offering features firewall management and intrusion detection to protect networks from attack. When combined with our identity management and lone worker solutions, utility companies can safeguard their premises and assets and fulfil their duty of care while maintaining continuity of supply.

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.