Monday, June 9, 2003

AT&T Expands Managed Security Services Portfolio

AT&T announced three new managed security services aimed at businesses and government agencies:

  • AT&T Network-Based Firewall Service, which allows customers to globally leverage their existing WAN by providing a common, secured gateway to the Internet. Customers can apply a common set of security policies across many locations, such as dynamic URL filtering, and SMTP email traffic scanning. The service also establishes enterprise Permanent Virtual Circuits (ePVCs), secure private connections between their company WAN and that of their customers or vendors.


  • AT&T Enhanced Managed Intrusion Detection Service, which augments the company's existing IDS in several key areas by using a proprietary AT&T Labs-developed capability. Anomalies are correlated and analyzed by profiling and baselining a customer's activity occurring at each intrusion sensor. It offers both network- based and host-based service, with coverage in over 100 countries worldwide.


  • AT&T Application Firewall Service, which includes hardware/software provisioning, testing, installation, and around-the-clock management


The security services are interoperable and managed using AT&T's Integrated Global Enterprise Management System (iGEMS).
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