A joint venture between Lancashire Council and BT known as One Connect has consolidated its security systems under one roof with McAfee.

One Connect, which provides telecommunications and business services to the council and public services, originally operated with nine security solutions upon its foundation in 2011.

The move to a single security provider came as the joint venture sought to reduce expense while increasing flexibility and speed of service.

The new security service will be hosted at one centrally managed site with one integrated framework for all users, covering networks, data encryption and backup and email filtering.

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