SaskTel selects SAIC’s CloudSentry to secure networks

SaskTel has selected Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) subsidiary CloudShield Technologies’ CloudSentry, an active threat intelligence capability to leverage its advanced security posture across its networks.

CloudSentry will assist SaskTel to protect its critical infrastructure while ensuring subscriber data privacy.

SAIC chief information officer and general manager of the company’s Cybersecurity Business Unit, Charles Beard said, "This new service provides CloudShield customers an active threat intelligence capability that aggregates a variety of public sources as well as the custom signatures developed by SAIC’s Cybersecurity Incident Response teams."

In real-time, CloudSentry works will control network traffic at multi-gigabit speeds while providing organisations with actionable network attack intelligence with advanced cyber countermeasures.

"CloudSentry provides the advanced threat mitigation that is critical to operating in today’s most demanding network environments and meeting cyber adversaries head on," Beard added.

CloudShield will work alongside SaskTel to provide necessary hardware and software to implement the technology as well as to implement and maintain CloudSentry protection to provide best practises over the foreseeable future.

The CloudSentry provides a carrier-class converged threat solution to meet cybersecurity requirements including botnets, malware, phishing and spam.

The platform will also protect mission critical infrastructure such as telecommunications companies, internet service providers, as well as national government agencies.