BT AND INTEL SECURITY COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP NEXT GENERATION SECURITY SERVICES

BT and Intel SECURITY COLLABORATE
TO DEVELOP next generation security services

Singapore, March 8, 2016 — BT and
Intel Security today announced a strategic agreement to create new solutions to
help organisations improve security and prevent cyber-attacks. The companies
will also work together in a joint cyber partnership to further develop their
common vision of creating next generation security services.

These new solutions will bring together key
elements of both companies’ technology platforms and address current shortcomings
of traditional point security
products by avoiding the operational silos that widen the gap between detection and response. They
are designed to simplify management and support, close many of the expertise
gaps in the market and improve speed of response.

In the face of an ever-evolving
cyber threat landscape, organisations need continuous innovation to help them protect
their critical data and applications wherever they choose to host them; on
their premises, in the cloud or a hybrid of both. BT and Intel Security are focused
on integrated, open security systems with cloud-first technology designed to
empower organizations to resolve threats faster and with fewer resources.

Together, BT and Intel Security will work to address
these threats with a single ecosystem that can handle multiple security
controls. This means that the controls within both companies’ platforms will talk
and interact with each other. This may provide considerable cost benefits for
customers as the same controls can be delivered often with less hardware, less
configuration and less management overhead.

Mark Hughes, CEO of BT Security, said: “At BT,
we are determined to stay ahead of the security game. We are collaborating with
Intel to bring together BT’s security intelligence with Intel’s advanced
security tools in real time. We believe that our combined proposition will be an
industry first in terms of the scope and ambition. Intel’s cutting edge
security technology and our knowhow in service design and delivery can help
make our customers safer.”

Raj Samani, EMEA chief technology officer, Intel
Security, said: “Our goal is to enable
businesses around the globe to more aggressively and effectively defend against
data security incidents and targeted attacks. Together with BT, we
plan to close the gaps between detection and remediation by creating and
managing a security ecosystem designed to enable real-time communication,
intelligence exchange and response across security tools.”