May 12 (UPI) -- Thales has opened a cybersecurity center in Asia to offer services to promote regional cybersecurity and help combat cyberattacks.
Thales' Cybersecurity Operation Center is located in Hong Kong and is the fifth such center worldwide.
It offers provides 24/7 cybersurveillance services -- cyberrisk prevention, threat anticipation, detection of security incidents, rapid reaction to attacks -- to banking and finance institutions, government agencies, operators of critical infrastructure operators and multinational companies.
"With this new Cyber Security Operations Center in Hong-Kong, Thales answers its demanding customers' growing need for best-in-class security supervision services in Asia region," said Richard Malett, Thales vice president in charge of Critical Information & Cybersecurity in Asia-Pacific. "It consolidates the group's leadership in security supervision and our ability to provide cybersecurity services to customers in Asia."
Thales said that in addition to cybersecurity supervision, the center can also perform complementary consulting services, such as risk assessment, security audit, and penetration testing.
