TheLowDown Monthly Newsletter                  August 2007

AT&T Launches Managed Firewall Service for Today's Businesses

AT&T Inc. announced an enhancement to their Managed Firewall Portfolio with the release of a Premises Based Cisco ASA® Option.

It was developed for businesses of all sizes. The purpose of this is to improve and protect business internet infrastructures.

"The service is available through the AT&T BusinessDirect® Web portal, which provides a single point to manage the customer's perimeter. The fully managed firewall service makes enforcement of customer's security policy an inherent part of the network across Intranet-, Extranet-, and Internet-based communications. The AT&T Premises Based Cisco ASA® Firewall Option is available bundled with AT&T's Managed Internet Service or as a stand alone service to use on any internet service provider's connection" (News@Cisco).

AT&T's Managed Firewall Service has outbound connections by way of the Cisco ASA Option. This is great for small businesses, because now the cost for this feature is much lower and economically attainable. Approximately 33% of small and medium-sized businesses plan to implement this security software during 2007.

AT&T leads the way toward truly making the network the platform for the way customer based businesses work and "enabling business customers to stay focused on their core businesses by outsourcing important but complex network capabilities."

Some of these new services include:

 

• "Internet Protect: This service is designed to help predict and profile identified malicious activities before they occur, including such information as top 10 vulnerabilities, recent patch releases and other need-to-know facts.

   

   

• Intrusion Prevention: This service helps detect, contain and neutralize known threats from hackers, viruses and worms that could attack everything from servers to PDAs and reduce uptime and damage valuable data.

   

   

• Distributed Denial of Services: This service helps provide customers with the necessary protection to help them detect Internet attack traffic via their own edge-based detection solutions" (News@Cisco).

To be honest, these excellent features are just about mandatory for every business network enterprise. No doubt about it, the more protection the better! Loss of critical business information can not only cause a loss of customer good will and good faith towards your organization, but corrupted databases or missing data is a threat to your employees and customers and needs to be taken seriously.   

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