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U.K. incumbent to hire 900 staff over next 12 months in bid to boost protection for consumer, corporate clients.
BT on Wednesday unveiled plans to recruit 900 extra staff to work in cybersecurity over the next 12 months in a bid to improve protection for consumer, corporate and government customers.
The intake will include 170 graduates and apprentices in a bid to address what BT terms a skills shortage in the security sector. Successful applicants will undergo training in BT’s Security Academy.
"A number of high-profile security and data breaches have dominated the headlines in recent months, and this has led to a surge in interest from both consumers and IT departments wanting to know how best they can protect themselves in the digital world," said Mark Hughes, president of BT Security, in a statement.
"BT plans to remain at the forefront, innovating in cybersecurity, by hiring some of the best talent while training up the next generation of experts at our BT Security Academy," he said.
As well as hiring from universities, BT also participates in cyber security competitions, including Cyber Security Challenge UK and Cambridge 2 Cambridge. Contestants are pitted against one another to see who has the best cyber security skills.
BT already employs more than 2,500 security staff and maintains security centres all over the world, offering routine solutions, such as parental controls and antivirus software, as well as complex, managed security services for multinationals, banks and governments.
The majority of the new recruits will be based in the U.K., at BT’s security operations centres in London, Cardiff and Sevenoaks. Others will work at BT’s offices in continental Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
