AT&T Offers Managed Web-Security Service to Businesses Worldwide
BEDMINSTER, N.J., April 2 -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced the availability of AT&T Web Security, a network-based security service that provides advanced Web content and instant-messaging filtering.
Available to companies in the United States and around the world, AT&T Web Security is the newest addition to AT&T's enterprise security portfolio, which is focused on providing companies with security services "in the cloud" to help remove the dependency on hardware and software while supporting a "defense in depth" architecture with security features built into different network layers and supporting processes.
AT&T Web Security provides companies with network-based capabilities to perform Web-content filtering and screening for malware and spyware, and IM filtering for malware, without dedicated hardware or software requirements. AT&T Web Security is designed to monitor all nonencrypted Web traffic, including HTTP requests, and replies to HTTP requests and IM traffic. It can operate independently or become fully integrated with AT&T's other managed security solutions.
"With the introduction of AT&T Web Security, companies are better able to control spyware, malware and adware attacks and to provide increased control of the Web sites that employees are visiting," said Stan Quintana, vice president of AT&T Security Services. "URL-filtering capabilities are increasingly critical to companies as a first line of defense to block attacks."
AT&T Web Security features include:
o Monitoring and reporting of Web traffic at the network level. Customers
may choose to monitor individual end-users, which would require that
the customer install software on the user's PC.
o Web-based portal for administration and reporting, including customized
browser alert capabilities and automated reports.
o Near-real-time scanning of requested Web sites and files to ensure that
even trusted locations and files are monitored.
o IM-filtering capabilities with storage.
According to a Gartner report, dated March 16, 2006, "fewer than 10 percent to 15 percent of enterprises have deployed Web-based antivirus scanning."(1)
"AT&T Web Security enables us to monitor and help prevent Internet attacks in the form of viruses and spyware, which could migrate from users' PCs to our network," said Daniel Antion, vice president of Information Services, American Nuclear Insurers. "When making our decision to work with AT&T, the feature that attracted us the most was the fact that this would be maintained by AT&T, providing us with reassurance that AT&T would work on protecting us from an attack before it would even hit our network."
AT&T delivers a suite of Security and Business Continuity Services to help assess vulnerabilities, help protect infrastructure, detect attacks, respond to suspicious activities and events, and design enterprise networking environments for nonstop operations. More information on AT&T security offerings can be found at business.att.com/service_portfolio.jsp?repoid=ProductCategory&repoi tem=eb_security&serv_port=eb_security&segment=ent_biz .
(1) Gartner, Inc., "Marketscope for URL Filtering, 2006," March 16, 2006,
by Lawrence Orans and Arabella Hallawell.
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