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Vodafone and BAE team for security comms growth

Vodafone and BAE have announced a “strategic five-year” partnership to provide businesses with a range of advanced communications security products and services.

Based initially on smartphones and tablets, the products will be aimed at global enterprise customers.

The move is part of BAE’s plan to grow its cyber and security business, BAE Systems Detica.

In Spring, the first of the products, a cloud-based mobile security solution, will be brought to market.

It will work across all networks, scanning traffic to and from a company’s mobile devices in order to safeguard against attacks and block inappropriate content.

As part of the partnership, Vodafone will also become BAE’s preferred global supplier, excluding the US.

Vittorio Colao, CEO of Vodafone Group, said: “Mobile is transforming enterprise;businesses big and small now rely on mobile services to an extent unimaginable five years ago. As a new generation of mobile-centric security risks begins to emerge, our customers are looking for our help to protect their businesses.

“Our partnership with BAE Systems will strengthen further our commitment to meet our customers’ increasingly complex cyber security needs. We also look forward to working with BAE Systems as the company’s communications partner.”

Ian King, CEO of BAE Systems, said: “This partnership is unique, not only in bringing together a defence and security player with a major communications provider, but also in its ability to help global enterprises realise their ambitions around leveraging the future of communications technologies in a secure manner.

“These technologies are subject to the vulnerabilities of cyberspace and we can provide the mobile marketplace with protection against today’s threats and the advanced threats of the future.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .