Protects business customers with a Fortinet
Telco BT says it has remodelled the way its business customers connect across multiple sites with an all-in-one networking system that is simultaneously secured by Fortinet. The launch lets BT’s UK business and public sector customers collate software defined wide area and branch networking (SD-WAN and SD-Branch) and security so that BT’s expert team can fully manage it from one place.
This obviates cyber risk and helps customers move data and applications into the cloud more easily. The simplicity and clarity is ideal for digital transformation, as businesses adapt to hybrid working. Staff get better experiences because communication is improved dramatically when there is clearer video calling. The service is purpose-built to help retailers, for example, to meet customer demand more emphatically. Greater website reliability during peak trading events like Black Friday gives a memorable impression of efficiency. The provision of better person in the store, through click-and-collect routines, is another way of cementing your reputation. If your infrastructure and service skills can successfully pull off a pop-up store, that is another triumph that everyone will want to take ownership for whereas badly rolled out ‘pop ups’ are always orphans.
BT’s new managed secure networking service has reporting dashboards that give security teams full visibility over their network. BT is aware that the UK Government’s latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey revealed that 32% of businesses had identified a cyberattack in the previous 12 months. So BT asked Fortinet to fortify its wide-area networks and in-building connectivity, making it more resilient as the transition towards Software-as-a-Service cloud applications continues. The technology allows UK-based organisations of all sizes to improve the performance of business applications, including Microsoft Teams, SAP or Salesforce.
Customers can connect any combination of physical and virtual devices to their network and extend the network to be closer to the applications and data that are important to them, according to Ashish Gupta, MD Corporate and Public Sector at BT. “We’re already seeing strong interest from customers with a number of contracts won and being deployed,” said Gupta, “Fortinet delivers brilliant outcomes.” Customers are desperate to evolve their organisations securely and address rapidly changing business challenges, according to Paul Anderson, VP for UK & Ireland at Fortinet, “they are in safe hands.”