BT innoculates global IT systems against worms

BT is to roll out advanced technology to protect its global management networks from computer viruses, which have the potential to severely disrupt telecoms and data services. The telecoms operator plans to "innoculate" more than one million servers and desktops used to manage its external voice and data services and internal IT systems by the end of the year. The move follows growing concerns that "zero day" worms, which exploit vulnerabilities before suppliers develop patches, could cause severe damage to businesses.

"We want to protect our management network, used for managing IP, data, public switched telephony and switches. This is a mission-critical network - our crown jewels.

"If it were infected, that would have a very heavy impact on our ability to provide services," said Dave Harcourt, BT security manager.

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