The local operation of the communications solutions and services provider British Telecommunications (BT) - BT India (BTI) on Tuesday announced to open its first-ever Asia Pacific Security Operations centre (SOC) in India. BT India announced that it will invest 375,000 pounds (about $ 558,418) to open SOC in India.

According to BT India, the Asia Pacific Security Operations centre (SOC), part of the company's "Follow-the-Sun" customer service model, will offer 24x7 security device management services, including firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Bluecoat Proxy devices used for securing networked-IT environments.

"The BT SOC centre is another measure of BT's support and service to customers globally. We want customers to be able to change configuration and tackle problem management services which are engineered to BT's legendary quality standards," said Sudhir Narang, Managing Director BT India.

In a statement, BT India stated that the Asia Pacific Security Operations centre (SOC) has been planned at BT building at Noida, Delhi. In the first phase, the SOC will have space for 100+ engineers. The company will hire 30 highly skilled specialists to focus on Asia Pacific and global customers.

"This is a significant step in the direction of addressing customers' requirements for high availability networks. We will continue to invest in the SOC to ensure customers have the best environment to change or configure the latest available services from BT," Kevin Taylor, COO BTGS said.