{"id":9405,"date":"2016-06-12T09:32:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T09:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2016-06-12T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T09:32:53","slug":"bt-and-fortinet-to-boost-managed-security-services-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/06\/12\/bt-and-fortinet-to-boost-managed-security-services-together\/","title":{"rendered":"BT and Fortinet to boost managed security services together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BT and Fortinet have announced an agreement that will integrate Fortinet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortinet.com\/products-services\/products\/firewall.html\">FortiGate enterprise firewalls<\/a> into BT\u2019s global portfolio of managed security services.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement confirms BT\u2019s worldwide status as a Fortinet Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) Platinum Partner. BT customers will benefit from the protection provided by Fortinet\u2019s Security Fabric architecture and BT\u2019s global reach and expertise in managed security services.<\/p>\n<p>Integrated into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalservices.bt.com\/uk\/en\/products\/assure_managed_firewall\">BT\u2019s managed security service<\/a>s, Fortinet FortiGate enterprise firewalls will provide next-generation firewall, application control, intrusion prevention, web content filtering, Virtual Private Networking (VPN), spyware prevention and malware defence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fortinet.com\/post\/networks-are-changing-security-needs-to-keep-up\">Fortinet\u2019s Security Fabric<\/a> brings traditionally autonomous systems together into an integrated, collaborative, and adaptive architecture designed to deliver distributed security for all types of environments, from Internet of Things (IoT) to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Hughes, Chief Executive Officer, BT Security,<\/em> said: \u201cWe are committed to supporting our customers with solutions that can help them stay secure and support their journeys into the digital world. Together with Fortinet, we provide them with security solutions to protect themselves against today\u2019s evolving threat landscape without additional complexity or slowing down their networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet,<\/em> said: \u201cBT\u2019s global reach combined with our intelligent and adaptive Security Fabric is a powerful combination, which underlines our success together in the fast-growing worldwide managed security services market. We are excited to expand our already strong relationship to provide the security technologies customers with the need to protect and grow their businesses.\u201d    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT and Fortinet have announced an agreement that will integrate Fortinet\u2019s FortiGate enterprise firewalls into BT\u2019s global portfolio of managed security services. The agreement confirms BT\u2019s worldwide status as a Fortinet Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) Platinum Partner. BT customers will benefit from the protection provided by Fortinet\u2019s Security Fabric architecture and BT\u2019s global reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,809],"tags":[395,2269,121,2270,35,2271,2272,2273,2274,2275,1227,2276],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-security","category-more-news","tag-bt","tag-bts-global-portfolio-of-managed-security-solutions","tag-firewall","tag-fortigate-enterprise-firewalls","tag-fortinet","tag-intrusion-prevention","tag-malware-defence","tag-managed-security-services-market","tag-spyware-prevention","tag-threat-landscape","tag-vpn","tag-web-content-filtering"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}