Claro announces a US$165M investment to strengthen digital transformation, business intelligence and cybersecurity solutions

Claro press release

This is an automated translation of the original press release issued in Spanish

Cartagena, May 4, 2023. Within the framework of the eighth version of the Claro Tech Summit, an event that brings together more than 300 entrepreneurs from the country, Claro Colombia announced an investment of US$165 million to strengthen its digital transformation, business intelligence and cybersecurity. This investment, whose main objective is to strengthen and ensure the capacities of mobile and fixed networks, as well as cloud and data center services, will support the development of digital ecosystems that allow companies and government entities to advance in their transformation processes. securely and that allow the continuity of business services, ensuring information, which is the most valuable asset, in the face of recent cybercrime events. According to Carlos Zenteno, president of Claro Colombia, “the best way to gain productivity and efficiency is technology. For this reason, with more than 300 entrepreneurs, we evaluate all the work and evolution that exists around digital tools that today allow companies to transform digitally through connectivity, automation, data centers and cloud; and thus scale to the next level of business intelligence with Big Data, analytics and AI. But of course, this must be done in a secure way to protect the information and processes carried out by companies and mitigate the latent risks of evolution. For this we announce these investments that we are making known today that will allow the private and public sector to go to the next level”. Currently, Claro Colombia has a CSOC (Cybersecurity Operations Center) available to business customers. It provides defensive, offensive and cyber intelligence security services, based on the current threat landscape towards business infrastructure, where malware and ransomware increase exponentially, reaching 612% growth compared to 2022, according to Csirt figures. For this reason, the investment in cybersecurity that Claro will carry out this year will focus on the modernization of capacities and the strengthening of digital communication highways, high availability between Claro Colombia's data centers and robust DRP processes (Plan de Disaster Recovery, for its acronym in English) with hybrid and scalable connectivity architectures at the level of applications, databases, channels and microservices, among other aspects. Finally, in terms of business intelligence, due to the increase in data generation and information analysis, the company will promote technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, to meet the growing demand for tools for data visualization and growing adoption of the cloud. In companies. About Claro Colombia: Claro is the mobile telecommunications operator with the largest coverage in Colombia. It carries its 2G, 3G and 4G signal to 1,098 municipalities in the country with a network of more than 9,600 base stations and has more than 37 million users who have chosen it as their mobile voice and data service operator. It also offers fixed telephony, broadband Internet and closed television services to more than 3 million homes. Press Release About América Móvil: América Móvil is the leading integrated telecommunications services company in Latin America. The deployment of its world-class communications platform allows it to offer its clients a portfolio of value-added services and enhanced communication solutions in 23 countries in the Americas and Europe. As of March 31, 2023, the company had 374.3 million access lines, which include 300.9 million mobile subscribers and 73.4 million fixed income-generating units (fixed telephony, broadband and pay television). ). Learn more at www.americamovil.com