If you’re a South African enterprise conducting work with edge technologies, you may be interested to hear about the local security offering from T-Systems – the Cyber Defence Centre (CDC).

As Lukas van der Merwe, specialist sales executive for Security at T-Systems South Africa, explains, this new offering is a relaunched version of the firm’s Security Operations Centre, now delivering the latest edge cognitive technology to customers as a managed service.

“CDC’s security offering leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI), Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) technologies and advanced threat hunting capabilities, which place significant emphasis on the detect and response elements of cybersecurity,” he adds.

He also points out that this is the first commercial CDC in South Africa, and that T-Systems has seen a significant appetite among local enterprises to adopt these leading edge security solutions, but uptake has been virtually non-existent. This due to the prohibitive costs and lack of skills to configure, maintain and operate this technology, according to the sales executive.

These hurdles have been addressed somewhat, however.

“We are now able to offer this level of protection in a shared services model, as part of our managed cyber defence portfolio, to customers – especially small and medium enterprises – that would otherwise not be able to afford to deploy this technology,” he says.

Given that cyberattacks are now part and parcel of everyday life as an enterprise, safeguarding against it becomes all the more important, especially in the current remote working climate that most of the world finds itself in.

To that end T-Systems says it has been working on this offering for the past 10 years, and has been testing it out in part since January, with a view to make it available to the local market soon.

A precise date for availability is unknown, but those enterprises intrigued by what the Cyber Defence Centre can offer, should contact the firm here.

“Our CDC is part of an integrated network of 17 similar facilities around the world, and we are now able to offer our South African customers security solutions with AI and SOAR components, combined with proactive and anticipatory cybersecurity practices,” concludes van der Merwe.

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