Telefónica Tech, Telefónica’s digital business unit, has formed a strategic alliance with Wiz, a leader in cloud security, to facilitate the adoption and secure management of multi-cloud environments by organisations in the Spanish market.
Through this alliance, Telefónica Tech will integrate Wiz’s cloud security platform into its portfolio to offer customers its incident detection and response capabilities. In addition, it will provide professional services to accompany customers throughout the process, from initial implementation to continuous 24/7 monitoring, with the aim of ensuring uninterrupted protection of applications when moving them to the cloud.
Wiz is a comprehensive cloud security platform (CNAPP) that provides complete visibility into cloud environments, identifying critical risks and vulnerabilities. It enables organisations’ development and security teams to proactively protect applications from the code phase to execution in the cloud. Its ability to contextualise threats helps to efficiently prioritise and remediate the most important issues, blocking unauthorised access and improving security posture.
With this new alliance, Telefónica Tech is expanding its cloud security services to continue contributing, on the one hand, to simplifying security management in multi-cloud environments, which is the strategy chosen by most organisations to gain efficiency and increase the development of use cases, and, on the other hand, to preventing security issues from being one of the main barriers to faster multi-cloud adoption in the business environment.
Alberto Sempere, Director of Services, Innovation and Partnerships at Telefónica Tech, said: “The alliance with Wiz allows us to complement our cloud security services offering in the current context, marked by the massive adoption of artificial intelligence, and offer customers an automated platform with which to optimise the protection of their assets hosted in the cloud and the prevention of cyberattacks.”
Tomás Carbonell, Vice President EMEA and LATAM at Wiz, said: “It is an honour to consolidate this alliance between Wiz and Telefónica Tech at a key moment for the industry, marked by the rise of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and the accelerated adoption of the cloud. This collaboration allows us to offer organisations in Europe and LATAM a unique value proposition, combining Telefónica Tech’s local expertise with Wiz’s technology to protect everything that is built and run in the cloud. More than 50% of Fortune 100 companies already trust us, and we are ready to expand that impact in the region.”
