AT&T Private Intranet Protect to Provide Security Alerting, Notification and Analysis for Threats within Private Networks

Business Wire,  Oct 8, 2007  

Tags: analysis, AT&T Corp., Intranet, security

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AT&T Internet Protect Service Family Expands Offerings With Private Intranet Protect

SAN ANTONIO -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced the availability of Private Intranet Protect, an alerting and notification tool designed to analyze traffic on the user's Virtual Private Network (VPN) and help detect intrusions, cyberattacks and other potentially threatening identified anomalies. Private Intranet Protect is the latest option available in the AT&T Internet Protect([R]) service family.

Private Intranet Protect is available to AT&T Internet Protect customers who are also AT&T VPN customers and use managed VPN services. Private Intranet Protect does not require additional hardware or software to be installed on the user's premises. With the benefit of its ability to analyze complete private network traffic, Private Intranet Protect -- in combination with AT&T Internet Protect service -- offers an ensemble of monitoring and analysis of traffic both within the customer network and on AT&T's backbone.

"Private Intranet Protect has been developed by security experts within AT&T Labs to enable our customers to take a proactive approach to security analysis within and outside the private network," said Stan Quintana, executive director-AT&T Product Marketing Management. "The features and functionality of this managed security service provide customers with visibility into internal networks."

Private Intranet Protect is accessible through its own Web portal and uses Information from the customers network routers to help predict and profile identified malicious activity and nonconformance to customer network/security policies. Private Intranet Protect also provides network managers with prevention tips, detailed traffic analysis views and security information about the respective private network.

AT&T was recently positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of leading industry analyst firm Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for MSSPs, North America, 1H07" report.1 The Magic Quadrant evaluates vendors on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision.

AT&T delivers a suite of security and business continuity services to help assess vulnerabilities, 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 http://www.business.att.com/security.

(1) Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for MSSPs, North America, 1H07" by Kelly M Kavanagh, John Pescatore, 1 August, 2007.

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About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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