AT&T Adds Intrusion Alerting and Firewall Services

AT&T introduced two new security services, AT&T Internet Protect and AT&T Personal Firewall -- both of which are aimed at businesses and government agencies worldwide. With the introduction of these services, AT&T said it is extending the management of security vulnerabilities from a company's network to all of its remote end points.



The company will back AT&T Internet Protect with a service level agreement. If AT&T fails to notify a customer of a network-based denial of service attack before the customer reports it, the customer will be credited the charges for AT&T Internet Protect for that month's service. Later this year, AT&T Internet Protect will feature real-time mitigation of security threats for business customers.



The AT&T Personal Firewall helps secure remote employee workstations and laptops. The service enforces compliance with policies for firewall, anti-virus and software patch management; centralizes management tools for the control of remote end points; and gives customers control over the applications operating on employee machines. http://www.att.com