TORONTO – In the face of a growing concern about security threats to their enterprise networks, AT&T Inc. announced Wednesday it was expanding its Internet ProtectR service to Canada and Latin America.
A main priority of multinational companies in these two areas, according to AT&T, is finding ways to effectively assess vulnerabilities, protect infrastructure, detect threats and attacks and respond to suspicious activities and events on the network.
AT&T already offers the product in Europe, Asia Pacific and the United States.
A survey quoted by AT&T in a media release notes that the worst security threats cited by executives were viruses and worms, with identity theft emerging as another major concern.
“As businesses continue to merge multiple forms of data onto a single network – from voice to video to data – enterprise security becomes more complex,” said Andrea Messineo, vice president of AT&T for Canada and Latin America. “With the increased availability of AT&T Internet Protect in Canada and Latin America, we offer our customers products and services to help protect their vital network infrastructure.”
AT&T Internet Protect is a security alerting and notification service that offers early warning information regarding probable attacks of viruses, worms and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which are detected in the early formation stages.
The service is accessible through the AT&T BusinessDirectR portal and uses AT&T’s Internet Protocol backbone.
