AT&T has unveiled a new network-based Security as a Service (SaaS)offering, Secure E-mail Gateway Service, which provides e-mail security and message management by ensuring the integrity of a message before it enters an organisation’s network and helping to monitor and act on all outbound e-mail containing content that violates data loss prevention policies.
The company said that new e-mail security service integrates McAfee’s e-mail protection technology and global threat intelligence into AT&T’s network gateway nodes to deliver enhanced SaaS capabilities. Customers can manage and administer the service through the BusinessDirect customer portal that enables customers to perform a multitude of network management and administrative tasks.
According to AT&T, the new offering embeds features that offers protection against internal and external e-mail threats such as commercial spam, malicious attachments, direct e-mail server connections from spammers and botnet-controlled endpoints, and e-mail embedded URL-based attacks.
In addition, the Secure E-Mail Gateway Service enables monitoring and action on outbound e-mail containing content that violates policies; and provides features, tools and reporting capabilities that enable compliance with data privacy and retention regulations and legal discovery requirements.
Bill O’Hern, assistant vice president of technology security at AT&T Business Solutions, said: With this new AT&T Secure E-mail Gateway Service, our customers can ensure the integrity of a message before it even enters their network. In addition, the solution helps to meet compliance regulations as unwanted content is blocked and sensitive content can be encrypted with this service.
