BT has announced the expansion of its managed secure SD-WAN solution for business and public sector clients in the UK, now incorporating new SSE (Security Service Edge) capabilities.
The upgrade, powered by Fortinet, enhances the integration of networking and security. This expanded SD-WAN service will enable customers to smoothly transition to secure access service edge (SASE) while advancing their digital transformation efforts, ensuring secure access to applications and data in the cloud.
BT’s managed SD-WAN service already offers customers the flexibility to combine various connectivity options with a leading next-generation firewall.
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FWaaS-Secured SASE
The company has now partnered with Fortinet to enhance this offering with AI-powered SSE capabilities, delivering a comprehensive managed SASE solution that includes firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS), secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero-trust network access. This upgrade will improve customers’ network oversight with AI-driven proactive threat detection and data protection through BT’s unified monitoring services in the UK.
Additionally, it will support the creation of a zero-trust infrastructure by continuously verifying the credentials of users and devices accessing the network, whether it be at the edge or remotely.
“Our partnership with Fortinet is another signal to customers that BT has their back as they invest to become even more successful, creative, digital businesses,” said Matt Swinden, Director, Digital Connectivity, BT. “Our new managed service enables them to provide consistent, seamless, and secure experiences to their users of cloud-hosted digital services regardless of where they are accessing them from. This will help customers manage risk as they innovate with the latest connected technologies from IoT to AI.”
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Nirav Shah, Vice President of Products and Solutions at Fortinet, expressed pride in continuing the decade-long partnership with BT, highlighting the collaboration on the new SASE service designed to help BT’s UK customers integrate networking and security.
“SASE complements the cybersecurity platform approach to delivering integrated security and secure network access regardless of where users are located. By combining Fortinet’s cutting-edge SASE and secure networking solutions with a leading choice of fixed and 5G access networks from BT, customers can have a nimble, robust, and more secure network to help them get the best from the cloud,” Shah concluded.
