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Thursday, September 09 2021 - 09:00
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BlueVoyant Partners with Telstra to Launch Cyber Detection and Response – Endpoint in Australia and New Zealand
NEW YORK, September 9 2021, /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

Solution combines the strengths of Telstra's cybersecurity expertise with 
BlueVoyant's industry-leading threat detection, response and remediation 
capabilities 

BlueVoyant (https://www.bluevoyant.com/), a cybersecurity company, today 
announces its partnership with Telstra (https://www.telstra.com.au/), 
Australia's largest telecommunications provider, to launch Telstra Cyber 
Detection and Response – Endpoint, a fully managed 24/7 service that detects 
and responds to cyber attacks at the endpoint, in Australia and New Zealand.

Telstra Cyber Detection and Response – Endpoint is a collaborative effort, 
bringing together Telstra's Managed Security Services with BlueVoyant's 
technology for the first time. The BlueVoyant platform, a cloud-based ingestion 
processing and analysis system, gives clients access to world-class threat 
alerting, mitigation and resolution. The service is complemented by the largest 
Australian-owned Professional Services arm in Telstra Purple, and represents 
further investment by Telstra in delivering an integrated security service for 
Australian organizations.

Designed for mid-large size organizations looking for superior cybersecurity 
expertise, Telstra Cyber Detection and Response – Endpoint delivers 
capabilities typically only available to very large organizations.

Milan Patel, Global Head of Managed Security Services at BlueVoyant, comments: 
"Hybrid working coupled with the escalating frequency and sophistication of 
cyber attacks means that every laptop, tablet and mobile phone is a target for 
an endpoint attack. Working together with Telstra, our managed service means 
that their clients can immediately access and protect their organizations' 
devices and data."

Key features of the new managed service include:

•	Threat Detection: Advanced endpoint software is used to expand enrichment and 
enhanced behavioral correlations and isolate advanced threats that evade 
existing security solutions. 
•	Indicator Enrichment: Indicators of compromise associated with detections 
within the monitored environment are automatically extracted, scored and 
enriched, leveraging open source and proprietary threat intelligence tools. 
•	Endpoint Response: A specific set of actions are taken post investigation 
i.e., quarantine, delete, whitelist, monitor or blacklist. If an advanced 
real-time investigation is needed, remote instruction response activities are 
also available. 
•	Threat Hunt: The 'Advanced' service also includes proactively and iteratively 
searching events to detect and isolate advanced threats. It also enables remote 
hunt missions to search for signs of adversaries.

Cybersecurity in the Australian market is currently highly fragmented. 
Businesses are struggling with the complexity of multi-vendor solutions and 
sourcing the right skills to keep their businesses protected. Telstra, 
Microsoft, and CrowdStrike are strongly positioned to provide consolidated, 
flexible, intelligent cybersecurity solutions to the SMB and Enterprise markets.
 
Working together with Microsoft, BlueVoyant has extended its long-standing 
strategic partnership to focus on accelerating the development and release of 
security-based solutions. The partnership is founded on Telstra and Microsoft's 
shared understanding that security is underpinned by the increase in cloud 
adoption, combined with 5G, to enable an intelligent and secure workplace 
environment for all.

Matthew O'Brien, Cyber Security Executive, Product and Technology at Telstra, 
said: "Recent research suggests that the majority of Australia's top companies 
will continue to use remote and hybrid work models into the foreseeable future. 
In fact, it has become an embedded work practice, and is possibly one of the 
most profound shifts to come out of the pandemic. This means managing the 
endpoint through advanced detection & response capabilities is absolutely 
critical. Telstra's partnership with BlueVoyant demonstrates our continued 
commitment to securing Australian businesses."

Evan Williams, Microsoft ANZ Business Group Director of Modern Work and 
Security, added: "We see this latest Cyber Detection and Response offering a 
significant step in our partnership to help secure important aspects of our 
joint customer's network and services. It will be the starting point for any 
business as they look to secure their business environment in today's digital 
and connected reality. One of Telstra and Microsoft's key values is Better 
Together, which is demonstrated in this collaboration with Telstra and 
BlueVoyant to deliver a unique cybersecurity solution in the Australian market."

Jim Rosenthal, CEO of BlueVoyant, concludes: "We are delighted to be able to 
bring our end-to-end managed service into Telstra's cybersecurity portfolio and 
extend our global footprint of unparalleled cybersecurity services into the 
Australian market. Our partnership is testament to the global demand for 
cybersecurity outsourcing from organizations of all sizes, who want to access 
the best solutions."

For more information on BlueVoyant and Telstra's Cyber Detection and Response – 
Endpoint service, click here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNmk0HaJijg).

About BlueVoyant

At BlueVoyant, we recognize that effective cybersecurity requires active 
prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our 
proprietary data, analytics and technology, coupled with deep expertise, works 
as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem.

Accuracy. Actionability. Timeliness. Scalability.

Founded in 2017 by former Fortune 500 and former government cyber officials, 
BlueVoyant is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Maryland, Tel 
Aviv, San Francisco, Manila, Toronto, London, Latin America and Budapest. Visit 
www.bluevoyant.com.

About Telstra

Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and technology company, 
offering a full range of communications services and competing in all 
telecommunications markets. Our purpose is to build a connected future so 
everyone can thrive.

For more information visit www.telstra.com.

About Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq: "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the 
era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower 
every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more.

BlueVoyant Press Contacts:

Danielle Ostrovsky
Hi-Touch PR (Americas)
T: 001 410-302-9459
E: ostrovsky@hi-touchpr.com 

Jim Pople
C8 Consulting (EMEA & APAC)
T: +44 7955 030191
E: jim@c8consulting.co.uk

SOURCE: BlueVoyant