Located at T-Mobile headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, the carrier introduced its new state-of-the-art Cyber Defense Center and Executive Briefing Center. Together, with the existing Business Operations Center, the company says that it has put together an "integrated program for cybersecurity, innovation and resilience."
T-Mobile introduces its new Cyber Defense Center
You're probably most interested in the Cyber Defense Center, which is designed to help the wireless provider's security team handle the important tasks necessary to detect attacks, disrupt them, and respond to these cyber threats in real-time. The quicker T-Mobile can determine that its network is under attack, the faster it can deploy defensive tactics and take the necessary steps to protect T-Mobile customers.
Is this Cyber Defense Center necessary?
Absolutely. It's good to see a carrier focus on this.
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No. It's money that could be spent on improving coverage.
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Inside the Cyber Defense Center is the Cyber Command Center, which is up and running 24/7, 365 days a year (366 on leap years). Huge screens display maps with real-time analysis of global threats, network information, security alerts, and more. With years of experience backed up with machine learning and advanced analytics, this team combs through the real-time data looking for problems before they take place and spread. If a problem is spotted, the team makes the necessary changes to keep customers' data protected. This Command Center monitors, defends, and improves the T-Mobile network.
It looks like NASA but it is T-Mobile's new Cyber Defense Center. | Image credit-T-Mobile
The Cyber Lab is where T-Mobile stays one step ahead of the attackers by testing SIM dialers, looking for flaws in hardware and software, and coming up with defensive tactics to crush attacks and attackers. Using decoys targets to attract attackers, also known as honeypots, T-Mobile tries to understand what is behind these attacks. As an analogy, what T-Mobile is doing here is akin to the concept of the Magic Cue on Pixel 10 phones. Be proactive, not reactive. Anticipate attacks and create responses to them.
This is the room where it happens
According to T-Mobile, the actual cyber battles take place in the Incident Response War Room & Digital Forensics Room. This is the room where T-Mobile’s cybersecurity, engineering, operations and other teams get together to analyze a threat, discuss the response, and stop the attackers and attacks when they happen.
"Our new Cyber Defense Center is the heartbeat of T-Mobile’s cybersecurity operations and an embodiment of all the investments we’ve made to better safeguard our customers and their data. We’re not waiting for attackers to show up — we’re actively hunting them down around the clock, 24/7. Our teams think like them, experiment like mad scientists and learn from every threat to improve our defenses and give customers more peace of mind when they choose T-Mobile."
-Mark Clancy, T-Mobile's SVP of Cybersecurity
The Cyber Defense Center also includes a kitchen, conference rooms and a game room. T-Mobile says that these extras "keep teams energized, focused and ready for anything." The Center will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its Bellevue headquarters although the carrier has yet to announce a date.
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