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BTexact Technologies security practice achieves further accreditation to BS7799
Added: (Thu Aug 23 2001)
BTexact believes that BS7799 is vital to gain further external business
The security practice within BTexact Technologies’, BT’s advanced research and technology business, announced today that it has been certified to BS7799-2:1999 by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance. BS7799 standard specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing and documenting an information security management system (ISMS).
BTexact has been accredited against BS7799 for some 18 months now. This further extension to BS7799-2 increases the practice’s accreditation to include consultancy, design, and assurance services, as well as penetration testing.
Mike Todd, head of security technologies at BTexact, said: “Now BTexact Technologies is actively engaged in selling security services outside of BT, formal recognition and accreditation by independent third-party auditors of the management, implementation and operation of these services is absolutely vital.
“This further accreditation is a significant and important achievement and milestone along the route to building BTexact Technologies into an internationally recognised best-of-breed security practice; and will form a prominent feature within future marketing and branding activities. Indeed, we believe that without accreditation it may not be possible to undertake security work across a range of sectors in the near future.”
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About BTexact Technologies
Created in April 2001, BTexact Technologies offers expertise and experience in communications technology and e-business, backed by a team of over 3000 technologists and one of the world's largest communications research and development facilities. It’s a new company, with a long history. As the centre of technical expertise for the BT Group, BTexact established a record of world-first achievement and of successful delivery of projects, large and small. It has also created an intellectual property portfolio of some 14,000 patents based on almost 2000 inventions.
BTexact Technologies now also provides services to companies outside the BT Group. It is headquartered at Adastral Park, at one end of the Cambridge-2-Ipswich Hi Tech Corridor in the UK and is a founder member of the Cambridge Network. BTexact has people based worldwide - including locations across the UK and in Asia, continental Europe, and North America.
BTexact's employees include many who are world leaders in their specialist fields, working at the forefront of standards development and new technologies in areas including multimedia, IP and data networks, mobile communications, network design and management, and business applications. For more information about BTexact Technologies, please go to www.btexact.com
Further information
David Pincott, Pirate Communications, T: 0207 760 7052, Mob: 07866 261198 or email: david@piratecomms.com
Justine Manché, Pirate Communications, T: 0207 760 7053, Mob: 07811 164724 or email: justine@piratecomms.com