Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering), on Jan 8, announced a strategic partnership with Telos Corporation to provide critical cross-cloud governance, risk, compliance and cybersecurity solutions that meet requirements of industries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Telos is a cyber, cloud and enterprise security solutions leader.

The partnership will see the incorporation of Telos’ Ghost and Xacta capabilities in ST Engineering’s suite of cloud governance, risk and compliance (GRC). It will also include cybersecurity offerings, enabling augmented security and compliance spheres that will be built around critical systems in the public cloud, on-premise and hybrid cloud environments.

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Telos Ghost is a patented system sold as a service for private, secure and anonymous operations on the internet.

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Telos Xacta is the enterprise, cloud and hybrid cloud solution for cyber risk management and compliance automation that helps to meet the complex challenges of managing IT risk with continuous compliance monitoring, security assessment and ongoing authorization.

“As cloud services become an essential part of business operations, organisations need to ensure processes and tools are kept up to date to deal with increasing cyber threats,” says ST Engineering’s chief operating officer of defence & public security, and president/head of digital systems, Lau Thiam Beng.

“With Telos joining the technology partnership ecosystem that we have built with other best-in-class solution providers, we are in a stronger position to grow our foothold in the cloud managed services market,” Lau adds.

As at 12.04pm, shares in ST Engineering were trading 2 cents higher or 0.5% up at $3.85.