Orange Romania SA (ORO)

The mobile telecommunications market leader in Romania with over 11 million customers, end of 2022 and over 5000 employees. ORO is part of the Orange Group, one of the largest multi-national corporations in the world with a strong leadership in innovation and over 272 million customers over 5 continents. ORO has invested well above 2.5 billion EUR since 1997 and is constantly investing in the network development, new technologies, products and services. Positioned as a leader in Research, Development and High Tech Telecommunications, ORO features an Technical Department, managing existing and new technologies, products and services and piloting their techno-economical assessment and integration in the network: 5G/beyond 5G services, migration towards a future proof multi-VAS platform, Network Function Virtualisation, Software-Defined Networking use cases testing and cloud native applications as well as a rich B2B Cyber Security Services Catalogue, including Managed Prevention, Managed Monitoring, Detection, Response, Mitigation and Investigation Services offered through a mature SOC operated from Bucharest.

Through the collaboration in SOCCER, ORO envisions the strengthening of it’s MDR/SOC capabilities and capacities through the addition of new tools, new processes, new use-cases and automation playbooks, based on emerging technologies to be developed in the Project, and an increase of capacity by additional staffing resources.

Orange Romania is a market leader in Managed Cybersecurity Services, supporting an End-to-End Services Catalogue. The Service Offering includes Managed Monitoring, Detection and Response to cyber threats, and relies on advanced, state-of-the-art technologies such as Next-Generation Firewalls (NGF), Security Information Event Management (SIEM) deployments, Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response platforms and Endpoint Protection Solutions (Enhanced Detection and Response – EDR, Extended Detection and Response – XDR).

A key part of the Services provided through ORO’s Cyber Security Provider Catalogue, are managed, and operated in a Security Operations Centre (SOC), hosted in Bucharest, Romania, and teamed through a multi-level operational design, with Level 1 to Level 3 Analysts and Experts, co-ordinated by a Cybersecurity Operations Manager. The SOC Team are part of ORO’s Network and IT Operations and are currently providing a catalogue of services to internal and external (Business to Business, B2B) customers.