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BT’s Cyber Index Reveals the Scale of Today’s

Cyber Threat

BT’s network is one of the largest in the allows us to understand how and where to act on. Given the breadth of our network,
world. Serving almost 200 countries and put controls in place and how to detect the data it provides gives an indicative
territories, we own enough terrestrial fiber anomalous behavior that could be an early view of the wider security ecosystem and a
to go 1.5 turns around the earth, not to indicator of an attack, enabling us to be snapshot of the growing threat landscape.
mention satellite and wireless networks. on the front foot in continually tuning and Building awareness of cyber issues is key
One terabyte of data passes through our refining security policies and our services. for improving defences, as it makes people
network every second. We also operate We want everyone to feel safe when using and organizations place more emphasis
at an industrial scale, with thousands of our services, so we work behind the scenes on their online security, and makes it more
applications and hundreds of thousands to protect our customers - from both large difficult for cyber criminals to operate. For
of users. We protect our global network scale attacks and more targeted attempts example, the increase in the number of
from a huge number of cyber-attacks, to steal data. We believe that sharing phishing attacks has driven us to do more
and the scale and complexity of attacks threat information with trusted partners internal education and training of what to
is intensifying. For example, between April in industry and government is crucial to look for, how to avoid being caught out and
to June 2019 we blocked on average 111 improving the overall security ecosystem how to report suspect emails. The training
million connections to malware sites every and protects our customers from a wider has not only helped protect our own
month. As a network service provider, our range of threats than any one organization network but has also helped employee’s
expertise is in analyzing and understanding can determine on their own. We’re now share the information they’ve learnt at
traffic and data flows across public and sharing some of the information we home with friends and family. Over time the
corporate networks. We can correlate what monitor on the BT Cyber Index. The Index Index will also give a more insightful, long-
we see happening on our network, on our gives a high level view of cyber threats that term view of the trends and developments
customer’s networks and with external we protect our customers from on a daily in cyber security. We’re also working to add
events. We process 600,000 events per basis and show some of the challenges further categories and measurements, so
second (2.1 billion events an hour) into we’re working against. It includes DDoS that we can provide insight on more types
BT’s Cyber Security Platform, enabling us alerts, phishing sites taken down, malware of cyber-attacks.
to proactively hunt threats in real time. This sites blocked and scam activity that we

BT Lines Up Infrastructure Sale in Netherlands

The UK’s BT Group is aiming to sell Mobile World Live reports, citing a Sunday major restructuring program including
telecoms towers and broadband Times article. The Dutch assets form part slimming down Global Services and
infrastructure in the Netherlands worth of BT’s Global Services division, serving refocusing on core operations, while last
around GBP100 million (USD121 million), business clients. BT is in the midst of a week the group announced it will delist its

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