NTT Security, the specialized security company of NTT Group, has announced it is ready to
deliver its first unified service in partnership with Symantec Corporation. NTT
Security, which announced its intention to enter into a strategic partnership
in April, will integrate Symantec’s cloud based security service with NTT
Security’s enhanced threat detection, providing Web Security as a Service
(WSaaS).
WSaaS will be the first service offered through the partnership program, which
was set up to bolster web security services to clients across the cloud, mobile
and on-premise, and will be delivered as part of NTT Security’s Global Managed
Security Services. NTT Security has been developing various technologies to
provide more sophisticated cloud based security services as part of the
program.
The new service will provide real-time threat intelligence, analysis and
protection, together with the management and security monitoring of cloud-based
web security solutions. It has been designed by NTT Security and Symantec to
reduce overall security risk, minimize the impact of security threats, and help
clients meet compliance requirements. The service offloads the burden of
real-time network and device monitoring, advanced security analysis and
security management, allowing clients to focus on the timely delivery of higher
quality secure IT services for their organization.
As a standard feature, WSaaS will provide risk ratings based on threat
intelligence from both Symantec and NTT Security which will be more effective
in providing enhanced security analysis and rapid deployment through both agent
and agentless capabilities. NTT Security will holistically be able to handle
logs from web security services as well as on-premise security appliances such
as Proxy, Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System and Intrusion Detection System
and Sandbox for enhanced correlated analysis. WSaaS is served on NTT Security’s
best-of-breed global managed security services platform, which enables security
services with the same high quality across the globe.
Kazu Yozawa, Chief Technology Officer at NTT Security commented: “The unified
service is a vital step towards reducing security complexity and accelerating
our clients’ digital transformation for their cloud journey. WSaaS delivers
convenient cloud based security services with advanced threat detection and
response. The advantages of cloud based security services are easy and enable
swift deployment of secured internet access. The same controls and security
policies can be applied to distributed locations covering all aspects of
today’s enterprise businesses from cloud and mobile through to on-premise.”
Greg Clark, Symantec CEO commented: “The cloud presents tremendous opportunity
for organizations, but also introduces a whole new set of security and
compliance risks. Symantec has invested heavily in innovations and integrations
of CASB, network security proxies and endpoint solutions to solve these cloud
generation challenges. We are very proud to be partnering with NTT Security to
deliver these innovations to our joint customers.”
NTT Security will continue to develop state-of-the-art security solutions
including using Symantec’s cloud based sandbox and Cloud Access Security Broker
(CASB) service, which are also planned for future release.
