Aerospace and defense firm, BAE Systems plc (BA.L) and Telecom giant Vodafone Group Plc (VOD,VOD.L) announced Monday that they have formed a strategic five-year partnership to provide businesses with a range of advanced communications security products and services, initially focused on smartphones and tablets.
Vodafone stated that the first commercial element of the strategic partnership between Vodafone and BAE Systems will be a new cloud-based mobile security solution, Vodafone Mobile Threat Manager, to be brought to market in Spring 2013 and initially available to Vodafone's 1,500 global enterprise customers.
Vodafone Mobile Threat Manager works across all networks, scanning traffic to and from a company's mobile devices in order to safeguard against malicious attacks and block inappropriate content, without impacting on device performance.
As per the terms of the partnership, BAE Systems announced that it also intends to select Vodafone as its preferred supplier of mobile communications worldwide, excluding the US.
Once appointed, Vodafone will provide services to BAE Systems' 35,000 UK employees from July 2013, with a view to expanding these services across its global workforce over the term of the contract.
Vodafone said that it is additionally discussing the supply of Unified Communications to BAE Systems in the UK. The partnership also provides a framework for both companies to explore a broader range of joint security products for other business areas including interconnected devices using machine to machine or M2M technology.
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