As organisations' dependency on technology increases, so does the risk and potential impact of a virus or malicious attack on systems and operations. In 2000, for example, it's estimated that security breaches cost UK businesses £13.6 billion. Also, the need for security is made all the more pressing by the fact that a total security solution may soon become mandatory for almost all businesses under UK and European law.
BT Wholesale offers a suite of consultative services for data security that delivers a combination of technology and management functions to protect your data in the event of intrusion, failure or malicious attack. These include:
- Penetration testing services.
- Managed firewalls - providing perimeter security for the internet and private corporate networks.
- Intrusion detection services - complementing services such as firewalls.
- Digital certificates - an advanced form of personal ID providing secure access to a network for authorised users.
- Encryption and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - protecting the privacy of information sent and received.
- Filtering (also known as "blacklisting") - enabling companies to prevent employees accessing certain internet pages and restricting access to specific data on the corporate local area network (LAN).
- Biometrics - a recent and developing security solution which uses technologies such as smartcards, retinal scans and fingerprint scanning to protect an organisation's assets.
