Telefonica Digital forms new security division aimed at cloud, mobility

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steve Evans.

Telefonica has announced the creation of a new security company — called Eleven Paths — within its Digital division that will be given the task of improving security innovation at the Spanish tech giant. Eleven Paths will primarily be run by formers workers of Informatica 64, a Spanish security company acquired by Telefonica. Informatica 64’s founder and CEO Chema Alonso will lead Eleven Paths.

He said that his role, and that of Eleven Paths, would be to radically change the way companies provided security services to customers and big corporations. "The digital world is changing the rules and security services need to adapt to this new challenge very fast," Alonso said. It seems as though the company will be left to its own devices — Telefonica Digital said the company would be run as a startup unit within the larger organisation…

Telefonica Digital hopes this approach will provide Eleven Paths with the agility and flexibility it needs to be able to bring new security products to the market quickly. The company’s initial focus will be on securing data in the enterprise from threats connected to mobility, cloud computing and social networking. The increased use of smartphones and tablets in the enterprise would be a particularly strong focus area, Telefonica Digital said in a blogpost…

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