Husain Parvez
Published on: September 15, 2025
Bell Canada has introduced Bell Cyber, a new brand that brings together all of the telecom giant’s cybersecurity services under one umbrella and adds an autonomous security operations centre capable of detecting and containing threats in under five minutes.
The announcement was made at the company’s inaugural Bell Cybersecurity Summit in Toronto. BCE Inc. president and CEO Mirko Bibic told attendees, “What we do at Bell and Bell Cyber is we help financial institutions, governments, retailers, manufacturers, and other organizations to improve security. We detect, we mitigate, and then we help resolve cyber attacks quickly.”
Bell Cyber is the successor to Stratejm, a Mississauga-based security provider acquired by Bell in 2024. The company says the integration allows it to combine Stratejm’s real-time detection capabilities with Bell’s infrastructure and AI platforms, including Bell AI Fabric and the recently launched Ateko tech services brand.
John Watson, group president of Bell Business Markets, AI, and Ateko, described the launch as “an investment in the security of our customers and our country, strengthening our ability to protect enterprises and institutions in an increasingly complex threat landscape.”
The new autonomous operations centre is designed to shift response from reactive to proactive. Talha Iqbal, senior director at Bell’s Cyber Intelligence Centre, explained it as “a team of AI-driven digital analysts” that can “respond to the alerts, analyze the events, correlate the data and build a containment strategy to take an action within minutes.”
Speakers at the summit, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal AI and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon, highlighted the urgency of addressing cybercrime. According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, losses reported in 2024 reached $648 million, with 71 percent tied to cyber incidents. Officials warned that actual damages may be many times higher, as most cases go unreported.
