Telefonica Tech has been recognized for the third consecutive year as a leader in cybersecurity services by industry analysts at Avasant. Telefónica’s digital business unit provides both reactive and proactive digital security management for large enterprises, mid-sized businesses and SMEs.
These services include threat detection and response, identity management, vulnerability management, offensive security, network and data security and cloud security, as well as professional technology consulting services. All of this is integrated into NextDefense, Telefónica Tech’s suite of global advanced cybersecurity services.
In addition, Telefónica Tech supports industrial and critical sectors, such as energy, healthcare or transportation, with managed security services and teams of professionals certified specifically for the needs of these sectors. Telefónica Tech specializes in monitoring the security of OT operating technologies, which are responsible, for example, for controlling the physical systems that manage the elements of industrial production plants or electromedical equipment in healthcare environments.
“There is no digitalization without cybersecurity. At Telefónica Tech, we advise and promote the digital transformation of companies and organizations of all sizes and sectors to make them efficient, productive and secure, as well as resilient to changing risks and threats,” explains Alberto Sempere, Director of Services, Innovation and Partnerships at Telefónica Tech.
AI, challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity
As the adoption of generative AI advances, on the one hand it amplifies risks to businesses and infrastructure by lowering some barriers to entry for cybercriminals and allowing them to personalize attacks, but on the other hand it also increases threat detection and response capabilities and cloud security.
Telefónica Tech has partnered with the world’s leading cybersecurity and AI companies. Through these collaborations, it is building a comprehensive portfolio of security automation use cases that, combined with the expertise of professionals in its multiple Security Operations Centers (SOCs), offer advanced threat detection and response capabilities in the European, Latin American and American markets.
In addition, Telefónica Tech provides real-time, 24/7 expert advice and intelligence to help companies effectively identify and mitigate security risks through the cyber intelligence services offered by its Digital Operations Centers (DOC), located in Madrid and Colombia, and in coordination with more than 2,500 cybersecurity operations professionals, who manage 350,000 security event tickets and approximately 500,000 alerts per year, of which 13,000 are critical.
