With the ac­cel­er­at­ed trend of Cloud-based op­er­a­tions, Bmo­bile has joined forces with lead­ing cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty com­pa­ny, Fortinet, to im­prove their cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty in­fra­struc­tures for cus­tomers.

De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from bmo­bile:

Da­ta net­work­ing and cy­ber se­cu­ri­ty have be­come nec­es­sary to the func­tion­ing of mod­ern so­ci­ety. And with the con­tin­ued shift to Cloud-based ap­pli­ca­tions and com­put­ing, the fo­cus for many da­ta providers is en­sur­ing that their clients’ in­for­ma­tion is se­cure and ac­ces­si­ble, 24/7. 

Cor­po­rate cus­tomers and of­fi­cials of bmo­bile, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider, joined rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Cal­i­for­nia-based lead­ing cy­ber se­cu­ri­ty com­pa­ny Fortinet to an­nounce the for­mal part­ner agree­ment bring­ing Fortinet’s Se­cu­ri­ty Fab­ric in­to the bmo­bile busi­ness suite of net­work­ing ser­vices and se­cu­ri­ty frame­work. This col­lab­o­ra­tion will al­low bmo­bile Busi­ness’s clients to fur­ther en­hance their own in­fra­struc­ture bring­ing new lev­els of cy­ber se­cu­ri­ty and net­work­ing op­ti­miza­tion that are fast be­com­ing the norm for mod­ern busi­ness­es that are look­ing to move to the cloud.

The Fortinet Se­cu­ri­ty Fab­ric con­tin­u­ous­ly as­sess­es net­work risks and au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ad­justs to pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive re­al-time pro­tec­tion across the dig­i­tal at­tack sur­face and cy­cle. Pow­ered by For­tiOS, the Fab­ric is the in­dus­try’s high­est-per­form­ing in­te­grat­ed cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty mesh plat­form with the broad­est open ecosys­tem. Fortinet se­cures some of the largest en­ter­prise, ser­vice providers, and gov­ern­ment or­ga­ni­za­tions around the globe and ranks num­ber one in the most se­cu­ri­ty ap­pli­ances shipped world­wide with a to­tal of more than 565,000 cus­tomers.

Gilbert Perez, Re­gion­al Sales Man­ag­er for Fortinet in the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean, de­tailed this fur­ther, “To­day, a large part of glob­al or­ga­ni­za­tions uti­lizes Fortinet to con­nect their var­i­ous com­pa­ny (phys­i­cal) sites. It can be as few as 10 sites or, in large com­pa­nies with over 1000 sites. These com­pa­nies all use SD-WAN (Soft­ware-de­fined Wide Area Net­work), in­stead of ded­i­cat­ed cir­cuits, which are very ex­pen­sive to main­tain. This pro­vides a more cost-ef­fec­tive sys­tem with a bet­ter ex­pe­ri­ence for the cus­tomer,” Perez ex­plained. “SD-WAN pri­or­i­tizes traf­fic that is mis­sion-crit­i­cal for an or­ga­ni­za­tion de­pend­ing on the busi­ness. So, if in­ter­nal video is crit­i­cal for the com­pa­ny, it has process­es that then help pri­or­i­tize this net­work traf­fic.”

Fortinet is a lead­ing de­vel­op­er of Se­cure SD-WAN that’s ‘been de­liv­er­ing SD-WAN, since be­fore it was even called SD-WAN,’ ac­cord­ing to Perez. Se­cure SD-WAN us­es a cen­tral­ized con­trol func­tion to se­cure­ly and in­tu­itive­ly di­rect traf­fic across the Wide Area Net­work. This re­sults in a bet­ter over­all end-user ex­pe­ri­ence, im­proved ap­pli­ca­tion per­for­mance, and in­creased busi­ness pro­duc­tiv­i­ty with re­duced costs for IT. Perez not­ed that this is a sig­nif­i­cant game-chang­er for bmo­bile Busi­ness cus­tomers and added that his com­pa­ny’s lev­el of com­mit­ment and con­fi­dence is high. “bmo­bile is an im­por­tant part­ner for us and we want to be able to grow, so we are sup­port­ing them with es­tab­lished and ded­i­cat­ed team mem­bers based right here in T&T to dri­ve these so­lu­tions to mar­ket in a re­li­able and ful­ly sup­port­ed way,” he added.

Dar­ryl Duke, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er En­ter­prise Ser­vices (Ag.), TSTT, is an­tic­i­pat­ing the needs of the tele­com com­pa­ny’s cus­tomers, point­ing out that ‘as more com­pa­nies move in­to the Cloud and more in­to the dig­i­tal world, they have to en­sure that they have cost-ef­fec­tive so­lu­tions for con­nec­tiv­i­ty and se­cu­ri­ty.’ Duke not­ed that this is pre­cise­ly what the al­liance with Fortinet brings in one SaaS (Soft­ware as a Ser­vice) so­lu­tion. “We know that bmo­bile cus­tomers ful­ly put their trust in­to our hands as we work to sup­port their needs and re­quire­ments in the dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion age, so we want to en­sure that this trust is al­ways switched on and we are con­fi­dent that this plat­form that we are bring­ing in­to the bmo­bile net­work will en­hance that trust as we move cus­tomers to a dif­fer­ent lev­el with re­li­able so­lu­tions like Fortinet’s SD-WAN,” Duke added.

bmo­bile has the dis­tinc­tion of hav­ing the on­ly TIA-942-B, DCOS ma­tu­ri­ty lev­el 3 and SOC Type 2 cer­ti­fied da­ta cen­ter in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the re­gion. This com­bi­na­tion of cer­ti­fi­ca­tions is crit­i­cal to the up­time of their op­er­a­tions as much as it is for their clients in the Caribbean that lever­age this high­ly rat­ed fa­cil­i­ty. The ful­ly re­dun­dant da­ta cen­tre, along with bmo­bile SD-WAN and Fortinet of­fer­ings, rep­re­sent the best-in-class da­ta so­lu­tions for com­pa­nies in T&T and the wider Caribbean that are em­bark­ing on deep­ened dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion so­lu­tions. bmo­bile Busi­ness of­fers cor­po­rate and gov­ern­ment-lev­el so­lu­tions and sev­er­al ser­vice so­lu­tions for small and medi­um busi­ness­es. These in­clude a wide range of Cloud-based ser­vices in­clu­sive of In­fra­struc­ture and Busi­ness Con­ti­nu­ity, Uni­fied Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and net­work­ing ser­vices such as Man­aged Wi-Fi, Ded­i­cat­ed In­ter­net, and MPLS, and of course mo­bile broad­band and se­cu­ri­ty of­fer­ings. 

Guests of the Fortinet Se­cu­ri­ty Fab­ric Ses­sion en­joyed first-hand in­ter­ac­tion with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Fortinet and bmo­bile and were able to learn more about the cus­tomiz­able and lo­cal­ly avail­able so­lu­tions di­rect­ly from mem­bers of both teams.