British Telecommunications Plc (BT)
BT is one of the world’s leading communications services companies, serving the needs of customers in the UK and in more than 170 countries worldwide. Our main activities are the provision of fixed telephony lines and calls, broadband, mobile and TV products and services as well as managed networked IT services.
In the year ended 31 March 2014 (the 2013/2014 financial year) BT Group revenue was £18.3 billion with £9.7 billion of this derived from next generation products and services, primarily ICT and managed networks, broadband, TV, and convergent mobility solutions. UK operations accounted for 77% of revenues and here BT is the largest communications services provider, with around 10 million voice lines, around 7.3 million retail broadband customers, a TV base of 1 million customers and over 5 million wifi hotspots. We also provide network services to other licensed operators. For further details see http://www.bt.com/. BT’s main research and development centre is in Adastral Park in Suffolk, UK, and is home to over 3,800 of BT's top scientists, engineers and business people. Our employees include many who are world leaders in their specialist fields, working at the forefront of new technologies and standards development in areas such as broadband applications and services, IP and data networks, IT, mobility and converged services, network design and management, and business applications and services. We provide research, development and consulting services for BT, developing innovative technological ideas and solutions that translate into practical and marketable solutions for the business. Our research labs played a leading role in the development of global communications standards and we inherit from them a science and engineering base acknowledged widely as second to none.
BT invested £530 million in research and development in 2013/2014 to support our drive for innovation. Our global development centres, located in the UK, US and Asia, help us draw together key and complementary
skills and resources with the objective of increasing agility, efficiency and delivery of innovation to the market. Past EU Framework Programmes, primarily in the ICT area. Within the 7th Framework Programme BT coordinated
four projects, provided technical leadership on two further projects, and partnered in twenty four other projects. Eight of these projects currently remain active.
BT offers a comprehensive security services portfolio that includes Managed, Hosted and Cloud Security and Network Services, as well as Cloud Infrastructures such as the BT Cloud Compute On Demand and other products in the BT Compute family. BT also has over a decade of experience in providing more than 860 MSS (Managed Security Services) to customers across the globe. BT has tens of SOCs (Security Operations Centres)
operated by security-cleared staff, empowered by a centralized monitoring and management platform with full audit capability, providing leading diagnostic, monitoring and reporting capabilities with SAS70 and ISO27001 IT Security management accreditations. BT has a sophisticated corporate cyber-defence operations organisation using a state of the art tool-set that is being refreshed continuously and combines in-house and partner technology. This capability is used to protect BT’s network, platforms, services and information resources and also as the basis of services offered to its enterprise customers. As an example, consider that BT successfully protected the ICT infrastructure of the 2012 Olympic Games. BT Global Services provides security and risk management services to corporate and customers under the BT Assure brand, including a cyber-defence offering, BT Assure Cyber and . BT Assure Threat Intelligence . BT also works closely with the UK Government and law enforcement agencies and is a member of the CERT-UK Cyber-security Information Sharing Partnership.
BT’s security research capability is provided by the Security Futures Practice, based at Adastral Park, Suffolk.
It provides innovative solutions and technology to strengthen BT’s own defences and to differentiate BT’s security products and services from those of competitors. Technology originating in the Security Futures
Practices that is now in active business use includes: i) a visual analytics platform, marketed externally as BT Assure Analytics, which is in service in BT’s Security Operations Centre; ii) a suite of security services available to customers of the BT Cloud Compute platform. We are also contributing innovative original technology to BT’s next-generation cyber-defence platform, and we anticipate using the incubation instance of this platform as a means of validating the results of the project.
