BT recognised as Leader for managed security services

BT has been positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Security Services 2017 Vendor Assessment.*

In this year’s report, BT has moved into the Leaders category for the first time. In the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Security Services, published in 2014, BT was named a major player.

The report notes that BT’s differentiation comes through its ability to be a one-stop shop for its customers, thanks to its capacity to seamlessly integrate a broad security portfolio of managed services with a customer's BT-provided WAN, LAN and compute solutions.

The report also highlights the fact that “an extensive network gives BT the insight into attacks so that BT can watch, learn, predict, and respond to the latest threats.”

Specifically, the IDC MarketScape report identifies BT’s strengths such as:

“Focus on big data analytics, threat intelligence and complementary services.”

“BT has made strides in addressing enterprise challenges of migrating to the cloud and as a result provides enterprises guidance to migrate to the cloud securely using BT's cloud partnerships and other vendor technologies.”

“BT combines its own innovation with partner technology that may include market leaders or innovating technology from emerging startups.

”“BT makes a practice of developing flexible pricing and payment options and for methods of acquiring and retaining talent. BT uses a variety of tools to identify talent and invests time and resources in developing cybersecurity talent — an example is the BT Security Academy.”

The report also highlights the fact that “BT's investments are focused on assisting customers in their digital journeys as they operate in new environments created by cloud, virtualised services, and IoT. BT offers advanced services that help customers transition with confidence and exploit these new technologies.”
 
Mark Hughes, CEO of BT Security, said: “We are delighted to be recognised as a global leader for managed security services globally in the IDC MarketScape report. This validates our continued investments in security capabilities and in enhancements of our global capabilities. We are fully dedicated to offer scalability, flexibility and performance within a secure environment to our customers as they embark on their digital transformation journeys.”

*IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Security Services 2017 Vendor Assessment, Doc #US41320917, August 2017.

View the report at http://www.globalservices.bt.com/uk/en/analyst-reports/idc-marketscape-2017-global-managed-security-services