Therefore, Meftah will assume the role of President of AT&T Cybersecurity Solutions and CEO of AlienVault. He will report to Thaddeus Arroyo, CEO of AT&T Business. Meftah will combine the strength of the Unified Security Management and Open Threat Sharing platform on which AlienVault was founded, along with AT&T's cybersecurity portfolio of managed services, solutions, and network visibility to better protect businesses.
The new enterprise cybersecurity solutions division will focus on making AT&T's extensive cybersecurity capabilities and technologies accessible to organizations of all sizes around the world.
Under Meftah's leadership, AT&T will continue to support and expand AlienVault's investment in its multi-channel sales ecosystem, including the added value of resellers, distributors, and security service providers, while strengthening AlienVault's technology and threat research foundations.
“Together we have the opportunity to simplify a complex problem and automate how customers address their cybersecurity needs,” Meftah said. “We will be able to combine our phenomenal threat detection, incident response, and security compliance platform with AT&T’s managed security capabilities, making near real-time threat intelligence actionable and achievable.”.
“Whether a large, small, or any size organization, all organizations are targets of the sophisticated cyberattacks that have been plaguing large enterprises for years,” said Thaddeus Arroyo, CEO of AT&T Business. “AlienVault’s threat intelligence talent and capabilities, combined with our ability to deliver innovative threat detection and response solutions at scale, will help businesses of all sizes better defend themselves.”.
“This is an exciting partnership for customers. AT&T has significant telemetry and intelligence capabilities. With AlienVault’s Open Threat Exchange, the new division has the opportunity to deliver leading threat insights and analytics to customers,” said Christina Richmond, Program Vice President, Worldwide Security Services at IDC. “In addition, the combined market presence of AlienVault and AT&T’s small and medium-sized businesses will offer security services that are viewed through a single pane of glass, cost-effective, easy to use, and can be bundled with other services.”.
