In 2017 we began working with BW Group to implement a wide-ranging security transformation programme. As one of the world’s leading maritime groups who provide energy transportation, infrastructure services, and renewable solutions across the energy value chain, a robust cyber security approach is critical to ensure uninterrupted business continuity.

Looking to the future, BW Group set out to build a next-generation cyber platform to meet growing business demands and evolving needs. They began a cyber maturity journey that would protect them in an emerging threat landscape.

Building a visionary security architecture and laying the foundations for a Zero Trust approach was a timely move, enabling BW Group to switch seamlessly to secure remote working when the pandemic began. Now, as office working re-emerges, the company can flexibly scale its security to meet new needs.

BW Group wanted to put robust security at the heart of their operation. Patric Desanti, BW Group’s VP and Head of Group IT and Digitalisation, formulated a vision of what success would look like and how BT could help him realise it. He knew that it must involve a cyber maturity journey, beginning with generating accurate and actionable cyber risk insights that he could swiftly raise to board level.

His ambition was to create a closed-loop threat management programme that picked up vulnerabilities, assessed, contextualised and prioritised them, and then tracked the results of any action, before feeding learnings back into the system. Establishing a new cyber risk frontier specific to business lines and their critical assets was essential to managing BW Group’s cyber risk exposure as they positioned themselves for the future.