BT DEFENCE
Enterprise Architecture BT has Enterprise and Solution Architects who work at different layers across their programmes .
“ What we need to increasingly do is work closer with the Defence Enterprise Architecture Team , and I think that ' s growing – but there ' s still a lot of work to be done in that regard with our customer ; we ' re trying to ensure that we have alignment there ,” says Cole . “ When our existing programmes are being modified , we need to make sure that ' s coherent with the principles of a decent architecture around enabling open standards to make sure that there ’ s reuse of components where possible , that security is built-in by design , and that it ' s both data-centric and user-centric .”
So , BT has to make sure that they ’ re providing solutions that will match the architecture in Defence , which requires a real understanding of the whole breadth of the Defence-IT ecosystem , yet can be very large and complex .
“ But with a strong team of architects and the people in my team with in-depth defence knowledge – many of whom have either served in Defence like I have , or who ' ve worked with the Defence customer for 20-odd years – they of course understand the environment really well . It ' s all about collaboration and implementation of our experience .”
“ What we need to increasingly do is work closer with the Defence Enterprise Architecture Team , and I think that ' s growing ”
JONATHAN COLE DIRECTOR , DEFENCE , BT
BT provides data and networks across all sectors . “ If anybody ' s a fan of premiership sport , they will probably find a lot of the sport that ' s getting to them is media and broadcast from BT . We take data and insights from that . We look at the network performance , we look at latency , and we have resilience plans so that if , for example , a link drops , there ' s another link immediately available . What we need to do is to take insight from live operations . We run analytics on that and also have visualisation there , as well as command centres .”
BT has a Networks Operating Centre and a network of Security Operations Centres across the globe , providing ‘ follow the sun ’ security services . They also have subcomponents of these , based on particular customer environments . They then have the callcentres who deal with customer management , as well as on specific tactical issues , but behind the scenes , BT is looking at the data and insights for the performance of their networks .
Cole says : “ We look at the security threat landscape and at associated incidents . We work very closely with the National Cybersecurity Centre , sharing incident reports and threat intelligence between our organisations . We also share this information with like-minded partners to help build our collective resilience against the evergrowing volume of cyber threats .”
108 October 2022