Subex announced its partnership with Telefónica on a new cybersecurity venture focussing on IoT Security. Thiscollaboration will be realised through a new cybersecurity unit recently launched by Telefónica.

As the number of devices connected to the internet grows exponentially, the risks associated with themalso grows in parallel. To address these threats and to promote IoT implementation, Telefónica haslaunched this initiative with a twofold objective. On the one hand, this unit will strive to expand theexisting catalogue of IoT products and services offered to customers and, on the other hand, to developnew IoT security solutions to cater to the existing and emerging threats faced by businesses deploying IoT.This unit will leverage Telefónica's existing network infrastructure and the Kite Platform, an IoTconnectivity management platform that allows businesses to improve efficiencies while reducing costs.

As part of the new solutions developed by this new initiative, Telefónica, via its ElevenPaths cybersecurityunit, has expanded its collaboration with Subex, with whom it already offers a Fraud Management as-aservicesolution (FMaaS). The new scope of collaboration extends to analysis of the data traffic generatedby IoT devices, and detection of specific threats in this field.

Together with the detection of threats in IoT, the IoT Cybersecurity Unit will also offer management ofsecure credentials for devices and DNS security. In addition, it has adapted part of its catalogue of genericcybersecurity solutions to IoT, such as SandaS for the management of GRC (Governance, Risk, andCompliance) capacities, or CyberThreats for the early detection and identification of Internet threats.