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In a significant move to bolster the cyber defenses of UK small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), CrowdStrike has announced a strategic partnership with BT. The collaboration has launched BT Business Antivirus Detect and Respond, a new service powered by CrowdStrike Falcon Go. This initiative is designed to provide SMBs with the same caliber of AI-powered cybersecurity protection trusted by large enterprises, aiming to close a critical security gap for a vulnerable segment of the market.
BT and CrowdStrike partner to launch a new cybersecurity service for UK SMBs.
The service, BT Business Antivirus Detect and Respond, is powered by CrowdStrike Falcon Go.
It delivers enterprise-grade, AI-native protection to stop breaches and ransomware.
The solution addresses the SMB security gap, where only 11% currently use AI-powered defenses.
BT provides 24/7 expert services for deployment, protection, and incident response.
The goal is to make advanced cybersecurity simple and accessible for smaller businesses.
The partnership directly addresses a critical vulnerability identified in CrowdStrike’s own research. While SMBs are increasingly aware of cyber risks, limited resources and a lack of in-house expertise have left them exposed. The survey highlights that a mere 11% of SMBs currently utilize AI-powered defenses, making them prime targets for modern cyber threats. This new service is built to bridge that gap by making top-tier technology and support accessible.
BT Business Antivirus Detect and Respond is tailored for the SMB operational reality. It combines CrowdStrike's award-winning, AI-native platform with BT's around-the-clock expert services. The solution is engineered for quick and easy deployment, minimizing disruption. SMBs gain the protection of the Falcon platform, known for stopping breaches, while also receiving ongoing support from BT's security professionals for installation and incident response.
The collaboration is framed as a national mission to transform the cybersecurity posture of UK SMBs. By uniting CrowdStrike's technological prowess with BT's extensive reach and trusted customer relationships, the partnership aims to turn cybersecurity from a perceived business barrier into a tangible competitive advantage. This allows SMBs to operate and grow with greater confidence in their digital security.
This partnership between CrowdStrike and BT marks a pivotal step in democratizing enterprise-level security. By providing a solution that is both powerful and practical, it empowers UK SMBs to defend against sophisticated threats effectively, ensuring they can focus on innovation and growth without being hindered by cybersecurity concerns.
BT Group is the UK’s leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications and related secure digital products, solutions and services.
BT Group consists of three customer-facing units: Consumer serves individuals and families in the UK; Business covers companies and public services; Openreach is an independently governed, wholly owned subsidiary wholesaling fixed access infrastructure services to its customers - over 700 communications providers across the UK.
British Telecommunications plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.
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