BT and Google Cloud advance cyber security in new partnership

One element of the partnership witnesses BT becoming a managed services delivery partner for Google’s Autonomic Security Operations offering based on Google Chronicle. Autonomic Security Operations is an holistic framework that combines principles, practices and tools enabling organisations to adopt an adaptive and automated approach towards threat management.

Underpinned by Chronicle’s peta-byte scale detection, a data lake powered by Google Cloud’s data and analytics platform BigQuery and rich, compelling analytics via Looker, the solution decreases the time to detect and respond to threats, which is essential in the face of the increasing volume and complexity of cyber attacks.

Customers will benefit from the new partnership by gaining the technological capabilities of Google Chronicle, combined with BT’s track record of delivering cyber security services for organisations with complex estates and requirements.

Further, customers will be supported by experts from BT’s Security Advisory Services team, who leverage the organisation’s deep experience in security operations and integration to help companies ensure that they’ve optimised their wider security architecture to fully align with priorities and ambition.

Exciting prospect

“Combining Google Chronicle’s capabilities with BT’s view of global networks and experience of providing managed security services is a really exciting prospect,” said Tris Morgan, managing director of security at BT. “The Autonomic Security Operations solution will help our customers to rapidly identify risks and automatically enhance their cyber defences, in turn providing the speed that’s essential for combating cyber attacks.”

Morgan added; “This represents the first step in our partnership with Google Cloud on cyber security, with both companies fully committed to providing new innovations and solutions that help organisations remain one step ahead of what is an increasingly burgeoning cyber threat landscape.”

Magali Bohn, global director for partnerships and channels at Google Cloud Security, responded: “Our partnership brings the best of BT’s experience in deploying Big Data-based security platforms with Google Cloud’s innovative security capabilities to help our multinational customers transform their approaches towards cyber risk management in the face of what’s now undoubtedly a rapidly changing threat landscape.”

The partnership builds on the BT Group and Google’s existing relationship focused on housing the former’s data in Google Cloud in order to support its analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-centred ambitions.

As an additional aspect of the partnership, BT and Google Cloud will also seek to incorporate solutions from Mandiant, itself a market leader in threat intelligence solutions that was acquired by Google last year.

Finally, BT is working in parallel with Google Cloud to trial Google’s Vertex AI and Duet AI capabilities.