Telkom Business launches leading-edge security offering

Issued by Telkom Business

Johannesburg, 14 Nov 2013

Today, Telkom Business introduced Consolidated Threat Management (CTM) to the market. CTM is a comprehensive security service offering for perimeter and branch office networks.

"CTM is a leading-edge, all-inclusive offering that sets the benchmark in the South African IT security landscape," says Vaughn Naidoo, the head of Product Portfolio, Architecture and Innovation at Telkom Business. CTM serves to protect businesses of all sizes and sectors from simple day-to-day IT security threats, as well as evolving blended attacks, including worms, Trojans, viruses and malware.

According to Naidoo, this offering bears testament to Telkom Business' vision of being the converged ICT market leader. "With CTM, customers get a comprehensive security offering, based on a single technology platform, from one service provider. The net impact of which is reduced complexity and cost."

CTM is a fully managed and supported service, including elements like:

* Policy and configuration management;
* Automated reporting and communication;
* Security policy configuration and log backups;
* SLA, support and maintenance services; and
* Health, availability and performance management.

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"There are a number of benefits to how we have configured the functioning and overall servicing of CTM," explains Naidoo. "This lies primarily in reduction of cost and technical expertise needed due to the simplicity of the solution. CTM has an easy plug-and-play architecture and allows organisations to be compliant in respect to regulatory security controls."

The service also includes a dedicated managed service that can be deployed at the customer's premises or hosted at the Telkom Business data centre.

CTM is the first of three releases and forms the cornerstone of what will ultimately become a bigger portfolio. The second and third releases are scheduled to go to market in the latter part of 2013 and early 2014, respectively.

Telkom

Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa and on the African continent. It had consolidated operating revenue of R32.5 billion and profit after tax of R501 million for the year ended 31 March 2013, excluding a once-off impairment charge. Total assets amounted to R41.6 billion and equity attributable to the owners of Telkom to R17.9 billion as of 31 March 2013. The group generated free cash flow of R2.1 billion for the year ended 31 March 2013.

As of 31 March 2013, the company had approximately 3.8 million telephone access lines in service and 73 400 ports connected via MSAN access. Telkom offers business, residential and payphone customers a wide range of services and products, including:

* Fixed-line retail voice services using PSTN (public switched telephone network) lines, including ISDN (integrated services digital network) lines, and the sale of subscription-based value-added voice services and calling plans;
* Fixed-line customer premises equipment rental and sales services both voice and data needs and these include PABX, computers, routers, modems, telephone handsets and other ancillary equipment;
* Interconnection services, including terminating and transiting traffic from South African mobile operators, as well as from international operators and transiting traffic from mobile to international destinations;
* Fixed-line data services, including domestic and international data transmission services, such as point-to-point leased lines, ADSL (asymmetrical digital subscriber line) services, packet-based services, managed data networking services and Internet access and related information technology services;
* Data centre operations include e-commerce, application service provider, hosting, data storage, e-mail and security services;
* W-CDMA (wideband code division multiple access), a 3G next-generation network, including fixed voice services, data services and nomadic voice services;
* Mobile communication services, including voice services, data services and handset sales through its mobile brand called Telkom Mobile; and
* Other services, including directory services, through Trudon, wireless data services, through Swiftnet, and Internet services outside South Africa, through the iWayAfrica Group.

Convergence is one of Telkom's key strategic initiatives in building a sustainable future for the company. It will lead the provision of converged services in South Africa in support of its mission statement: seamlessly connecting people to a better life.

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