Welcome to BT Counterpane

We are pleased to announce that Counterpane is now part of BT Global Services, a managed services business group under the umbrella of BT Group PLC.

BT Group is a global company with approximately $47 billion in market capitalization and employees throughout 70 countries delivering communications solutions and managed services to customers in more than 170 countries.  BT Global Services helps organizations worldwide to master the complexity of security and business communications. The new company, BT Counterpane, is now the leading global Managed Security Services Provider. The combined company will have 500 full-time, client-facing security experts, with an extended BT team of over 1,200 professionals, dedicated to providing you with deeper and broader support of your network security and data integrity needs.

BT Counterpane will remain as an independent division of BT Global Services. Our SOCs will remain in place, and our service offerings will not change. Your sales and sales engineering contacts will remain the same. You will continue to receive the strong individualized support that you have always enjoyed: the reliable service with quick response to security incidents from our analysts and SOC engineers.

Benefits:

BT Counterpane now offers to all our customers tremendous benefits:

• Global Presence –  BT Counterpane now supports organizations anywhere in the world, addressing their installation and professional services needs. The new company will have over 500 full-time, client-facing security team members to service you. More importantly, you can leverage BT's operations in 70 countries, services throughout 170 countries and 9,500 highly skilled professionals for meeting your organizational growth in areas of business and process transformation, change and project management, and solutions design and innovation.  
• Infrastructure Support – Our first priority is to ensure that your current level of quality services is delivered without interruption.  Engineering, Analysts, and Account Management Support will remain the same. 
• Channel Strength – BT Counterpane maintains the same focus on Managed Security Services, delivering the same flexibility upon which you have come to rely. You and your customers will now benefit from working with a truly global solution provider that has the breadth and depth in service offerings and support capability.  
• Financial Resources – BT Group PLC is a publicly traded company.  You will benefit from the resources through which BT Counterpane is able to access.  BT and its capital resources now provide the new company with extended ability to enhance both R&D and the existing services.  
• Portfolio of Services – BT has been selected by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for five years running as the world's top telecommunications company. BT Counterpane now offers you end-to-end security services by combining BT's industry leading network based services and security and business continuity services with Counterpane's managed security service expertise.  Specifically, BT Counterpane provides enhanced support for:
  • Managed VPN Services
  • Network Based Security Solutions – Network Firewall & VPN Solutions
  • Global Professional Services
  • Global Project Management
  • Global Managed Voice and Data Network Services

BT Counterpane will remain headquartered in Mountain View, California and will be led by the existing Counterpane Executive Management team, including:

• Bruce Schneier, Founder & CTO
• Paul Stich, President & CEO
• Doug Howard, COO,
• Kevin Senator, VP of Worldwide Sales

We are very excited about the synergies between the two companies from both business and cultural perspectives.  BT Counterpane will leverage Counterpane's rich heritage in managed security and continue Counterpane's innovative tradition, bringing to our customers and partners worldwide the highest level of security and excellence in service.  We assure you that our dedication to solving your security issues continues to be our top priority -- today and tomorrow.