The new Internet Protect service will identify attacks as they are occurring, and provide analysis on the type and source of attack, the company said. According to a pre-set service level agreement, email, text and pager alerts can be sent directly to systems administrators at subscriber sites. The system also feeds security reports and preventative fixes to a managed services portal.
The company said its service is based on systems that analyze all of the real-time traffic on AT&T’s IP network and uses heuristics and statistical models to pinpoint emerging vulnerabilities. AT&T claims to process 60% to 80% of all the globe’s Internet traffic and has the world’s largest IP backbone which can carry an estimated 1.2 petabytes of data each day.
Recognition of anomolies in data streams carried on the IP backbone, long with intelligence produced by its own 350 security analysts as well as security forensic experts and security statisticians at AT&T Labs, means that the monitoring service can be used as an early observation of an impending security event.
The company also unveiled a personal firewall service yesterday, designed to protect remote workstations. The AT&T Personal firewall automatically blocks known and unknown threats by protecting remote employee workstations using the Zone Labs Integrity endpoint security solution from Zone Labs Inc. of San Francisco.
Both AT&T Internet Protect and AT&T Personal Firewall will be sold as part of the company’s portfolio of managed security services, which include firewall, intrusion detection and token authentication.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
