Siemens and Telefónica join forces to offer comprehensive cybersecurity solutions

Press release from Telefónica

June 3, 2020

This release was published using machine translation. 

Telefónica and Siemens will offer comprehensive IT/OT cybersecurity solutions with which to accompany their clients on the path of digital transformation. Thanks to this joint proposal throughout the entire value chain, a secure response will be given to the connectivity challenges inherent in digitization, ensuring maximum robustness of facilities and communication networks and minimizing the impact of any possible cyber attack.

Cybersecurity is essential for critical infrastructures, Industry 4.0 and for the rest of public and private companies. The National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) managed more than 100,000 incidents related to cyber attacks during the past year 2019.

Siemens Digital Industries contributes its consulting and auditing technology and services incorporating digital products with high added value, both in the field of industrial network components and in the area of controllers and display systems, additionally offering a bastion of this equipment, encrypted communication and backup of data and programs, to achieve ultimately resilient systems.

For its part, Telefónica offers its wide portfolio of security services and all its extensive experience in the IT field to complement the design of the client's security plan and act in the event that any vulnerability is detected, thanks to the fact that they are being monitored in infrastructure in real time.

Siemens Digital Industries, in its quest to protect the Spanish economy, has launched several initiatives in recent years. The first of these was to partner with INCIBE to support the creation of a cybersecurity laboratory in the León Cluster that is used as a test bench to develop live tools, procedures and security controls with which to examine automation and digitization systems. of Spanish companies. Additionally, Siemens has an approved laboratory for the fight against cybercrime that is part of the RNLI (National Network of Industrial Laboratories) at its headquarters in Tres Cantos (Madrid).

In the international sphere, Siemens has created the 'Cybersecurity Charter of Trust', an alliance that promotes and fosters good practices in the field of cybersecurity throughout the value chain of the economy and which is made up of important multinationals and sector associations.

Telefónica has always had a special sensitivity in this field of security, enhancing these aspects through ElevenPaths, the cybersecurity company that is part of the new Telefónica Tech, from where it promotes all efforts in this area and has been recognized by leading analysts from the sector such as Gartner, Forrester, Ovum or Frost and Sullivan. Security is something intrinsic to the internal operations of the company, such as the products and services it offers to its customers. With more than 30 years concerned about the security of its facilities, networks and systems, and more than 15 years providing managed security services to its clients, Telefónica positions itself as the leader in the security market in Spain and with the recognition of the main analysts From the market.

Telefónica has the best solutions and technologies to protect its customers from possible security incidents, as well as detection and response capabilities thanks to its global network of Security Operations Centers (SOCs) that have the largest number of certified personnel in the main technologies on the market. It is committed to innovation and the development of cybersecurity solutions that value its services.

Emilio Gayo, President of Telefónica Spain, trusts that with this alliance: “It will be a starting point to extend Cybersecurity services and continue to demonstrate that we fulfill our commitments to digitize companies and society as a whole. The economic and social advance will come now, more than ever, from companies such as Telefónica and Siemens that know how to develop digitization solutions in any of their fields ”.

For Miguel Ángel López, CEO of Siemens Spain, the agreement represents “an accolade to ensure the success of the digital transformation of the Spanish economy in the era of the Internet of Things. Digitization and cybersecurity are two sides of the same coin ”.