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BT Launches Assure Analytics
June 2012 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
BT launched Assure Analytics - a ground-breaking new security data analysis service which helps organisations collect, arrange and evaluate big data sets, presenting them in visually insightful ways which can improve decision-making. It enables businesses to make informed, split-second decisions and develop effective long-term policies to govern their use of resources and response to potential risks and security threats across their infrastructure and operations.
The service, which instantly fuses together structured and unstructured data from any number of sources - such as emails, reporting systems, databases and internet news feeds - brings the information to life for businesses through insightful imagery and mapping which highlights potential patterns, threats, interdependencies and outcomes across their organisation.
BT is already using Assure Analytics in its battle to protect the UK telecoms network from copper theft. The service is helping the company analyse crime statistics, fault reporting and geographical information - highlighting patterns and theft hotspots to inform its prevention and response policies. It also has the potential to be connected into the company’s ‘Rabit’ tool, which gives BT and the Police an early warning of cable thefts in progress.
BT Assure Analytics uses the Cisco UC Gateway Services API via SecureLogix, which has integrated its voice policy and security applications with Cisco voice gateways. By building on the SecureLogix and Cisco tools, the service is able to access data and voice, whether SIP or TDM-based, in order to provide security services integrated on one platform, the Cisco ISR G2.
