AT&T to secure Amtrak information technology infrastructure - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Financial terms of the agreement werenot Dallas-based AT&T (NYSE: T) will providre services to protect D.C.-based Amtrak’z telecom network infrastructure, the company’ws Web site and the personal informationh of passengers. The companty will be responsible for implementinhg andmanaging Amtrak’s wireless localo area network (WLAN) and its enhanced virtual private network (EVPN) to help connect more than 400 locatione and multiple networks on a singlew network platform.
“We are bringingf together and providing security service across the newl y constructedAmtrak infrastructure,” said Gene Budsock, director of product marketin g management for security services at AT&T. Additionally, AT&fT will put up firewalls to secure data that flowsw both in and outof Amtrak’s monitoring for internal threats to and breachezs of the company’s security Despite, some contraction in technology spending due to the economy, Budsoc k said some areas of IT spending are creepintg upwards.
“Any time there is heightenedx awareness of security we get an increasewin [customer] inquiries,” said “As there is more scrutiny arounx protecting the customers and shareholdersw of institutions... that makes companiesd better be able to spend security dollars than other IT Underthe contract, Amtrak also will use AT&T voice including long distance and audik and Web conferencing services. Amtrako provides intercity passenger rail service across 46 statesand 21,0090 route miles. In the company’s last fiscal year, its trainsw carried more than 28.7 million passengers.
AT&Tg is the third largest employer in which is the headquarters of itswirelesa subsidiary, AT&T Mobility.