AT&T and IBM have announced a new managed network security and threat management service that combines their core competencies and strengthens their existing cloud partnership. The offering provides a single source that lets customers address network infrastructure security challenges combined with advanced threat monitoring and analytics.
The new managed service provides a blend of on-premise and cloud-managed security capabilities for uniformly monitoring security threats across all types of IT environments. The companies first announced they were working together on a network-enabled cloud security service in 2012, in a strategic move to add value to both companies’ growing cloud portfolios.
Combining proven offerings from both AT&T and IBM, the new service offers security intelligence sources and analytics capabilities to create a world-class solution. It includes Network Security infrastructure and Managed Security Services from AT&T like network-based firewall, IDS/IPS, web filtering and secure email gateway. It also offers distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services for devices managed either on premise or in AT&T’s cloud.
IBM components of the service include IBM Network Security Consulting, IBM Security Monitoring and Threat Intelligence and IBM Emergency Response Services. These features address assessment and transformation of network security, quick threat detection and response and 24/7 security expert support to respond to and remediate attacks.
"With today's constantly changing threat environment, companies need cost-effective solutions that provide end-to-end protection alongside real-time monitoring and response operations," said Andy Daudelin, VP, Security Services, AT&T Business Solutions. "We've created an unparalleled solution with the combined strength, reliability, and agility of AT&T network-based security services and IBM threat intelligence and analytics."
"Organizations are finding great benefits with hybrid IT strategies that blend mobile, cloud-based and on-premise IT resources," said Kris Lovejoy, general manager, IBM Security Services. "But securing these infrastructures can be complicated without a single, integrated management system that avoids creating silos of security data making it almost impossible to uniformly monitor security threats across environments. IBM and AT&T have come together to offer unprecedented security services designed to break down those silos and better secure data no matter where it resides."
Edited by
Cassandra Tucker