Security Consulting

AT&T Security Consulting: Your Trusted Security Advisors

Today's businesses must be prepared to respond to increasingly sophisticated security threats and challenges. Spam, viruses, worms and hackers can derail business as usual and impact your bottom line. Meeting compliance and privacy regulations requires industry knowledge, security expertise, and a lot of maintenance and management hours.

Security consulting services from AT&T can help you:

• Assess regulatory compliance
• Manage emerging threats
• Protect customer data
• Safeguard intellectual property
• Efficiently apply resources

A holistic approach to security

AT&T takes a holistic approach to enterprise security that delivers unbiased advice so that technology and vendor selections are the best to meet your unique requirements. Our security experts can help you address the complete business security life cycle, with services and solutions that include:

• Developing security strategies and roadmaps
• Helping you meet governance, risk and compliance needs
• Creating payment card industry solutions
• Installing and assisting with infrastructure
• Managing threats and vulnerabilities

Develop comprehensive security strategies and roadmaps

Consulting experts from AT&T can develop comprehensive information security frameworks for information protection, as well as incident prevention, detection and response.

We utilize industry best practices for legacy and emerging technologies to design a security strategy and roadmap that will help meet your current and future security needs.

Meet governance, risk and compliance regulations

Creating security policies that help you meet compliance and privacy regulations requires specialized industry knowledge and security skills.

AT&T delivers end-to-end consulting and advisory services for information security, governance, risk management, compliance and implementation. Our consulting services include:

• Enterprise risk assessments
• FTC-mandated assessments
• Regulatory and industry standards-based assessments across industry verticals
• ISO 27001/2 assessments and certification
• The AT&T SureSeal^SM Security Certified Program for industry-specific security standards

Rely on certified PCI Card Industry specialists

AT&T has received Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessor, Payment Application Qualified Security Assessor, and Qualified Incident Response Assessor certifications to help enable us to act as your trusted advisor for:

• Program management strategies
• PCI health checks
• Readiness assessments
• Incident response and forensics
• Annual PCI compliance assessments
• PCI vulnerability scanning

Help prevent data loss

Experiencing data loss and security incidents can have a direct impact on your bottom line. AT&T can help with data leakage, data loss and intrusions while improving performance - minimizing impact on existing systems and processes. Our security consultants provide:

• Network architecture assistance
• Firewall assessments
• Security event management
• Data discovery and data loss prevention alternatives
• Incident response and forensics

Manage vulnerabilities and threats

In order to establish an independent baseline and validate your organization's security posture, AT&T consulting experts can simulate real-world attacks to identify vulnerabilities, evaluate risks and develop remediation plans for your specific business and technology requirements - including mobility and cloud solutions.

AT&T can also help you assess, manage and reduce security risks arising from unsafe software development practices and evolving application-based mobile technologies.

Count on security consulting from AT&T

AT&T has a long history of developing and managing security services that support a defense-in-depth architecture to help with your security policies.

AT&T security consultants have experience handling large, complex infrastructure solution deployments. We follow industry best practices and a standardized methodology to help reduce risks and speed deployment of your end-to-end security solution.

Find out more about AT&T network security solutions.

Consider

When you're looking to implement or enhance your enterprise security strategy, consider these questions:

How experienced and knowledgeable is your security assessment team?

AT&T security consultants have deep industry knowledge that spans software and hardware infrastructures, regulatory compliance issues, security certifications and mobile computing - including the special threats presented by smartphones. We can also help create a security strategy for businesses considering cloud computing.

Does your current security strategy span across people, processes and technologies?

To be effective, security strategies need to include more than just product implementations. AT&T consulting experts can perform a detailed analysis of your entire enterprise, including the linkages between people and processes. Technologies are then implemented to help ensure those linkages remain secure.

Do you need to utilize more than one type of security technology?

AT&T acts as your trusted advisor, offering unbiased advice on the many technology strategies, standards and products available. We can help you find the right tactics and combinations of products needed to construct a detailed roadmap for an efficient, cost effective security solution.

Will a security assessment and deployment disrupt ongoing operations?

As part of our engagement, AT&T Consulting can devise an implementation strategy that helps minimize disruptions, so you can keep your focus squarely on innovation.

Can your security team holistically address the complete end-to-end life cycle?

From initial baseline assessments through solution design and deployment - to updates and upgrades for your solution - AT&T does it all. We offer a single point of responsibility and control throughout the engagement, and we can provide the tools and support services you need to help implement and maintain your security solution.

Design

AT&T security consultants can assist with the design and development of:

• A comprehensive security strategy to help reduce risks, maintain compliance, ease collaboration and speed responses to threats
• Vendor- and technology-agnostic product evaluations and tactical recommendations to help align strategy with business requirements
• Implementation and integration methodologies to maximize existing technology investments
• Roadmaps to future technological developments

To learn more about Security and other Consulting Services from AT&T, contact us today.