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The Da Vinci Code connection

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in BT on October 25, 2006 at 5:31 pm

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BT has continued to beef up its global professional services and security solutions presence by acquiring network security specialists Counterpane. Founded by Bruce Schneier, one of the best known, most vocal, and highly respected security and cryptography experts, the company provides outsourced security for large corporate networks, monitoring in excess of 500 networks for Fortune 100 business and multinationals around the world. Covering Microsoft and Oracle databases, SAP ERP applications and IBM mainframes, and with three data centres in the US and Europe it is a clever and prudent buy for BT who will, I am informed, integrate it into its Professional Services arm from April next year.

I first heard rumours that the takeover was on the radar a couple of months ago when I was the guest speaker at a BT

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