June 3, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — AT&T (att.com) announced this week that it has integrated AT&T Internet Protect, an intrusion alerting service, into its network. The company said the service, introduced in March, helps mitigate the effects of distributed denial of service attacks by detecting and blocking malicious traffic while allowing legitimate traffic to pass through.
AT&T Internet Protect analyzes traffic over AT&T’s global IP network, which handles 1.3 petabytes of data per day. The service is predictive, identifying and proactively notifying customers of potential malicious threats before they become full-fledged attacks. Notice sometimes comes weeks in advance, the company said.
“We believe that by integrating the predictive and early warning capabilities of AT&T Internet Protect with DDoS Defense, we are delivering the most potent tools against these types of attacks, which have crippled entire networks and brought businesses to a halt,” says Eric Shepcaro, vice president of application networking and emerging services at AT&T. “In addition, because we provide these capabilities as fully managed services, customers don’t have to make a significant capital outlay to get this protection.”
The network-based AT&T DDoS Defense option, the first mitigation option for AT&T Internet Protect, is based on technologies from Cisco Systems and Arbor Networks. It compares enterprise traffic flows to learned profiles of normal traffic patterns, behavior and protocol compliance.
