My Internet Protect is a security knowledge mining, alerting and notification service for identified threats that enter a customer’s network offered by AT&T. The new service is available to companies in the United States with locations around the world. It is the most recent addition to AT&T’s enterprise security portfolio, which is centred on offering companies in the cloud security services to help remove the dependency on hardware and software while supporting a safety in depth architecture with security features built into different network layers and supporting processes. The latest option in the AT&T Internet Protect® service family, My Internet Protect provides enterprise businesses with the ability to analyze and benchmark Internet traffic on their own network.

    My Internet Protect is created to look for traffic anomalies, based on the customer established base profile that are related to potential security threats targeted at private network IP addresses owned by the customer. The service is available to AT&T Internet Protect customers who subscribe to AT&T’s Managed Internet Service (MIS) or Global Managed Internet Service (GMIS), and does not request other hardware or software to be installed at the customer’s location.

    Stan Quintana, executive director - AT&T Product Marketing Management, stated: "With My Internet Protect, we can now offer our customers the ability to not only monitor and respond to security threats on the AT&T network, but also threats aimed at their own private network. This new service feature provides customer-specific alerts on detected traffic anomalies and identified distributed denial of service attacks."

    AT&T Internet Protect is available through the AT&T BusinessDirect® Portal and uses AT&T’s IP backbone as a proxy of general Internet traffic to help predict and profile known and developing malicious activities. AT&T Internet Protect offers network managers important security information, such as identified immediate network threats, recent patch releases and other security need-to-know facts.

    In a new AT&T study of 1,000 information technology executives in 10 U.S. metropolitan/regional areas, more than half of those surveyed (56 percent) view cybersecurity as their top concern. The study also found that when it comes to cyber security, companies have undertaken activities such as educating employees (66 percent), seting upcorporate security policies (65 percent), and contracting with an outside service provider to help them manage their security infrastructure (29 percent).

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