ZURICH -- Swisscom has chosen the Verizon Business Professional Security Services team to help the business communications provider boost its security offer for companies headquartered in Switzerland. Verizon Business will help Swisscom develop a new security operations centre and a new security management centre. The facilities, which will be located in Zurich, are due to become operational in January.

The new operations centre will further enhance the security services Swisscom is able to offer its local customers by providing a local facility to handle security incidents and alerts - a regulatory requirement for some market sectors. The management centre will provide data centre capabilities to support the delivery of Swisscom’s comprehensive portfolio of fully integrated communications security services, which is designed to meet the needs of today’s extended global enterprises.

Verizon Business will leverage its extensive expertise in the delivery of global security solutions to help build and run the new facilities for Swisscom. The company’s professional security services team will provide extensive planning, development and installation support, and select Verizon Business personnel will also work alongside and train Swisscom’s own employees as the new facilities go live.

Urs Schäppi, head of Swisscom's Customer Business Unit, commented: “Verizon Business has a proven record in the development and delivery of advanced security solutions. These new Swisscom facilities will significantly enhance the security capabilities currently available to Swiss multinationals in Switzerland, and provide a state-of-the-art forum from which we can deliver our own security services. We take the security of our customers’ data extremely seriously, and this investment is testament to our continued commitment to supporting their evolving business needs.”

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