In the ongoing battle against cyber attacks and espionage, Deutsche Telekom’s business customer unit, T-Systems, is joining with the Silicon Valley firm FireEye to offer security-as-a-service to European organizations.
According to a FireEye study, many European firms are not able to quickly respond to breaches ― the median response time was 229 days. Reinhard Clemens, CEO of T-Systems, said that through this partnership the company aims to reduce that “response time to minutes” for its European customers.
The new offering will be based on the FireEye cyber defense platform, which aims to protect organizations against threats and attacks that bypass common protection measures such as firewalls and anti-virus programs.
Security is a huge concern in Europe, and DT itself has been a major target. At a cyber security summit in November, DT Group CEO Timotheus Höttges said that the company’s network was hit with cyber attacks 1 million times per day.
This new partnership is particularly notable given the heightened security concerns in Europe over U.S.-based technology companies, fueled by the revelations of the U.S. National Security Administration’s spying activities on the continent.
In July, the German government canceled a contract with U.S.-based Verizon Communications in favor of hiring a German company to gain back more “technological sovereignty.” At the time, the government reportedly favored DT as the replacement.
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