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AT&T plans CNN-syle security channel

Round-the-clock videostreaming news channel to be offered to customers

June 23, 2005 12:00 PM ET

IDG News Service - Security experts at AT&T Corp. are about to take a page from CNN's playbook. Within the next year they will begin delivering a video streaming service that will carry Internet security news 24 hours a day, seven days a week, according to the executive in charge of AT&T Labs.
The service, which currently goes by the code name Internet Security News Network (ISN), is under development at AT&T Labs, but it will be offered as an additional service to the company's customers within the next nine to 12 months, according to Hossein Eslambolchi, president of AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services and AT&T Labs.
ISN will look very much like Time Warner Inc.'s Cable News Network, except that it will be broadcast exclusively over the Internet, Eslambolchi said. "It's like CNN," he said. "When a new attack is spotted, we'll be able to offer constant updates, monitoring and advice."
The online video channel will feature interviews with AT&T security professionals, as well as experts from a variety of organizations, such as network hardware vendors and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
All the while, news on the latest security vulnerabilities will stream across the bottom of the screen, much like the ticker symbols used by TV news networks, Eslambolchi said. "You will see ... what viruses exist and where they came from," he said.
AT&T also plans to provide its own analysis of Internet security threats, culled from probes of AT&T's massive TCP/IP networks that can be used to help predict where and when attackers will strike with new exploits.
"We extract intelligence and knowledge from the network, and we do data analysis, data mining, and we do artificial intelligence on the network," Eslambolchi said. "We use that to create a cybersecurity index to see where these worm and viruses and phishing and pharming attacks are coming from."

While a number of information services and Web sites monitor Internet security, nobody has managed to develop a single point of contact that addresses all security concerns, said Andrew Jaquith, a senior analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston. "There is really no good, consistent source for security information on the Internet," he said.
AT&T's streaming video service would be the first attempt to meet the need by using video, Jaquith said. "This sounds like something pretty innovative to me. Personally, I'd check it out."
ISN is part of a larger research and development effort within AT&T to build new ways of protecting networks from attack. Called the


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