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Growing reliance on network communications, transactions and collaboration leaves your enterprise increasingly exposed to security threats.

Almost 60 per cent of organisations feel unprepared and under-resourced to handle threats, according to a PC World survey. Threats are constantly evolving, but in-house security methods are failing to adapt.

Multilayered security is a necessity

The BT Network-centric Security Services solution offers our “in the network cloud” hosted managed security services, providing multilayered and comprehensive protection across your enterprise.

We help protect your network from within against hackers and terrorists, data leakages, theft or disruptions, and brand or reputation damage. Our solution is hosted within the BT network infrastructure to avoid the management difficulties of in-house security methods.

With BT, you can:

• Guard multiple or distributed sites with a single managed firewall for strong and cost-effective protection.
• Mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that can cripple or shut down your services.
• Inspect and filter up to one billion messages each day with comprehensive email scanning.

Place your security in trusted hands

The Network-centric Security Services solution offers numerous organisational advantages, including:

• Network visibility: we have more than 800 security personnel and in excess of one million event rules, automatically mitigating risks for a broad range of network devices.
• Global intelligence: our Secure Operations Centres monitor around 550 networks in 38 countries to proactively mitigate threats and help maintain network performance.
• Trusted solutions: we protect more than 860 global clients, including small and medium-sized businesses, Fortune 1,000 companies, and government, financial and healthcare organisations.
• Industry accreditation: BT Network-centric Security Services meet the ISO 27001 and SAS 70 Type II information security standards.
• A vendor-neutral stance: we pick and choose up-to-date resources from a wide variety of vendors, for solutions that best suit your organisational needs.

Protect your enterprise at all levels

Network-based transactions and communications can make it harder to ensure the security of your information and IT resources. Many organisations have suffered network attacks and disruptions from both internal and external sources.

While mitigating network vulnerabilities, you must also demonstrate organisational integrity and compliance. Multilayered security is therefore essential – but this can bring management difficulties, software complexities and significant costs.

Trusted leaders in network security

With the BT Network-centric Security Services solution, you can gain comprehensive 24/7 support from a trusted authority in global network security. BT:

• Manages more than 860 global clients and more networks than any other managed security services provider (MSSP).
• Denies 14 million unauthorised connection attempts, blocks five million spam messages every day and quarantines two million viruses each month.
• Manages secure data networks for 90 per cent of the UK’s major financial institutions and carries 80 per cent of all UK credit card transactions.
• Hosts military-grade processes and technologies within our fully-managed public key infrastructure, including firewalls and threat management systems.
• Adopts industry standards, including the BS7799 accreditation.

Managed security for optimised processes

The Network-centric Security Services solution can offer numerous benefits across your enterprise, including:

• Resilience and scalability: our services are virtualised for easier access to analysis reports and service requests via on-screen customer portals.
• Streamlined processes: we help to free your network of unnecessary, bandwidth-consuming traffic for improved customer network performance.
• Less need for data centre space: BT services are hosted within our ultra-resilient core network, reducing the need for physical data centre space.
• Improved pricing: licensing agreements and the virtualised service environment offer concrete and flexible payment options.
• Quicker security provisioning: virtualised interfaces offer faster access to additional services than customer premises equipment (CPE) provisions.
• Specialist risk management: BT experts work with you to quickly resolve network-based denial-of-service (DOS) attacks before your services suffer.

Secure Networking Professional Services

Our consultants can conduct optional pre-installation audits and tests as part of the solution to develop a visual representation of your network structure. This includes:

• Network mapping
• Physical checks
• Social engineering
• Firewall rule base checks
• Penetration testing

With the BT Secure Networking Quick Start Service, these can be carried out within two to three weeks.

A strong and comprehensive approach

We combine BT network-hosted solutions with more traditional perimeter and endpoint hardware services for robust and multi-layered security.

Our support and global sourcing capabilities can enhance what is already being implemented within your enterprise:

• Solutions such as Secure Networking DDOS can mitigate risks more effectively because they are positioned closer to the point at which a threat originates.
• Our large networks can withstand attacks and mitigate risks in ways that organisations’ smaller networks cannot.
• BT will provide extra storage when you have run out of internal data capacity.

Join us at the front line of high-end security

Our Network-centric Security Services solution is fully-managed to provide the most cost-effective security coverage with optimal investment returns:

• Lower the costs and burden of managing your infrastructure with our 24/7 security and equipment monitoring.
• Reduce the time and expenses normally associated with recruiting or retraining specialist personnel.
• Escalate faults more quickly than in-house security measures – our experts proactively tackle network disruptions.

Outsourcing is the future for security

New communications technologies – such as IP telephony and converged voice and data networks – offer many organisational benefits. But they can also expose your networks to risks.

Comprehensive and multilayered security is essential, but do-it-yourself methods are often not up to the task – with inadequate upgrades and insufficient coverage. True protection requires 24/7 support from an expert security partner.

Powerful protection with our infrastructure

BT Network-centric Security Services help you protect the integrity, confidentiality and availability of your information and resources. Our credentials include:

• Proven expertise: BT is a member of the global Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).
• Regulatory assistance: better comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach Bliley, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), SB 1386, the EU Privacy Directive and others regulations.

We have global analyst recognition, including:

• Frost & Sullivan’s Award for European Leader Customer Premises Equipment MSS Provider, 2006.
• “Strong Positive Rating” in Gartner’s MSSP Marketing scopes for both Europe and Asia, 2008.
• “Leader” status in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for North America for the first half of 2007.

Multilayered security with easy access

Our Network-centric Security Services offer enterprise-wide protection with leading technologies, including:

Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS): BT and its supporting vendors combine threat mitigation and detection technologies. These are embedded across our European networks to:

• Monitor and prevent attacks on your site 24/7.
• Respond to risks within 10 minutes.
• Ensure your networks only process legitimate traffic.

The DDOS service is fully-managed for reduced network latency and cost-effective protection, with:

• Less non-legitimate traffic for reduced bandwidth costs.
• Avoidance of site downtime for improved service delivery.

Network firewall service (NFS): a single, consolidated BT-hosted platform can protect multiple sites within a region from email attacks. Advantages include:

• Securing numerous sites for the cost of a single firewall.
• A ”clean pipes” strategy, inspecting and filtering all message traffic at the gateway.

MessageScan: web-based scanning automatically inspects email and web traffic, taking action according to your configurations.

• No software or hardware is needed at your premises.
• MessageScan includes: Anti-virus, Anti-spam, Image Control (Anti-Porn), Content control, Anti-Spyware and Web (URL) Filtering.

Prevent risks outside your perimeter

With our “security in the cloud” approach, services are hosted within the BT network to detect Internet-borne threats before they reach your organisation’s perimeter defences.

BT’s implementation:

• Offers a fully-designed and deployed range of security services that can be subscribed to on-demand.
• Helps you make savings, both in terms of efficiency in response to threats and in investment in hardware and IT expertise.

We help you benefit of more security technologies faster and more cost-effectively.

Virtualised access: on-screen customer portals offer a single point of access to our multilayered services. The portal:

• Displays attack alerts, accurate realtime data and detailed reports.
• Facilitates service requests.
• Removes the need to rely on just one server or one piece of software.

Security equals a bright future with BT

The Network-centric Security Services solution helps reduce running costs across your enterprise and processes. Advantages can include:

• Reduced hardware costs: our hosted security services can supersede comparatively expensive existing equipment or do-it-yourself methods.
• Decreased network expenses: we offer ongoing reports and advice for cost-effective bandwidth use.
• Future expansion benefits: BT handles security upgrades so expansion requires less money, time and resources.
• Boosted revenues: accelerated information can facilitate faster deliveries and more sales in a highly competitive market.
• Safeguarded business continuity: BT clients have experienced greatly reduced downtime. We can mitigate costly service disruptions.
• Optimised resources: your workers can concentrate on generating returns, rather than running the network.