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ICT Security Services & Solutions – Security comes first
Secure business processes are the highest priority for companies worldwide. According to Gartner analysts this is something that does not even change in economically challenging times.
Facts & figures
- Companies have seen annual double-digit growth in data and information theft and in attacks on IT systems through stolen identities.
- The importance of ICT security is growing due to the increasing number of regulations that companies must comply with, e.g. the amendment of the Federal Data Protection Act, SOX, the German Control and Transparency in Business Act (KonTraG), Basel II, etc.
- Expenditures for security make up more than 10% of the IT budget (Forrester 2009).
- When business processes are updated through ICT solutions, this requires management of identities, authorizations and roles.
- The biggest growth areas are data loss prevention, information rights management and security information management solutions.
- Companies can cut costs by outsourcing ICT security services.
Technology
- For IDC, IT security has top priority in Germany in 2010. Managed security services in particular are rapidly gaining momentum.
- The security market is made up of 60% services and 40% products (Datamonitor 2009).
- The focus is shifting from protection of infrastructures and end-systems to protecting the production factor “expertise” and the business processes.
- One user out of seven prematurely cancels ordering transactions on the Internet for security reasons. This affects 50 million ordering transactions and revenues amounting to EUR 3 billion per year.
- Some 96.31% of all e-mail is made up of viruses and spam.
The numbers are alarming: According to a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), 92% of large companies experienced a security incident in 2009. And the threat does not only come from outside, but from inside as well. The German Association for Security in Industry and Commerce (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sicherheit in der Wirtschaft) estimates that industrial espionage costs German businesses around EUR 20 billion annually.
Security as an overarching task
Today security is a requirement that concerns not only the
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Information and Communication Technology. These two terms began to be combined in the 1980s to emphasize the growing convergence between the two technologies.
infrastructure but a company’s business processes and organization as well. This calls for integrated security management. An integrated security management is one of T-Systems‘ core competencies as an end-to-end provider of ICT services. When operating ICT solutions for a customer, T-Systems simultaneously keeps all security systems up to date. With identity and access management (IAM), for example, the name of the game is secure administration and use of digital identities with the corresponding rights and roles. Only authorized users are granted access to information and ICT resources. T-Systems offers firewalls,
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Virtual Private Networks are made-to-measure, network-based voice solutions that enable companies to integrate multiple locations into a single network – without the cost of setting up their own corporate infrastructure. A VPN supports applications such as central dial-in, central switchboard, teleworking, customer telephone services and contact management.
, anti-malware and intrusion detection and prevention for protecting ICT infrastructure. 
