BT has reportedly launched a new suite of security services.
The suite of services is part of BT Counterpane’s Enterprise Compliance Framework offering and will proactively provide a range of compliance reports to enterprise customers based on those customers' discrete security and compliance requirements.
Customers can use the services to automatically receive compliance reports designed specifically to address their internal corporate and auditing needs. The new services simplify the reporting process and offers monitoring capabilities, forensic-grade archiving and customizable report templates suitable for audits against major IT security standards, such as Sarbannes-Oxley and PCI.
A broad range of security compliance reports are provided by these services such as tracking and reporting details about who has accessed which systems and when, duration of access by user and information on which users may have reset passwords, altered access to secure databases or authorized other users priority access to critical systems.
The new suite of compliance reports is dynamic as the reports are customized by customer. Customers can thus modify and grow the menu of reports they receive as external regulations and their company's internal requirements change over time.
“We designed the new suite of compliance reports to create a process that ensures the right people within a business have the right access to the right information - day in and day out,” said Toby Weir-Jones, director of product management, BT Counterpane, in a
statement to the press.
According to Weir-Jones, customers have been asking for an expanded portfolio of compliance reports, customized to their specific requirements. Customers want to proactively receive such reports on a frequent basis that cover a number of network and security components, any one of which could impact the integrity of their information.
“So in direct response to customers’ requests, we’ve developed the new suite of compliance reports to enhance customers' overall security practices,” he concluded.
Since last fall, BT Counterpane’s compliance reporting suite of services has been successfully piloted with many customers. The company plans to offer this suite as a value-added service to customers globally beginning next quarter.
BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries.
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