Cybersecurity
BT's IT Arm Pivots to Security as Big Tech Seizes Data and Cloud
- Global Services division shrinking, focusing on software
- Majority of investment at Global Services is in security
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BT Group Plc is pinning the future of its IT business on cybersecurity in a tactical retreat from storage and cloud services, where the former U.K. phone monopoly has been supplanted by the likes of Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.
The majority of investments at BT’s Global Services are now going to protecting a client roster of corporations and governments from hackers, unit head Bas Burger said in an interview.