What you need to know
- AT&T offers expanded features for its ActiveArmor cybersecurity.
- The new features are only available to AT&T Fiber customers through the smart home management app.
- To use it, customers will need to pay a monthly subscription of $7.
Today, AT&T is expanding Actifarmore (Opens in a new tab) Electronic security. AT&T customers can take advantage of this new expansion with new “Privacy and Advanced Protection” features.
This is more detailed approach (Opens in a new tab) The luxury of cybersecurity comes only to AT&T fiber optic customers. People using fiber can use these features through Smart Home Manager for $7 per month. The subscription will also include some other features such as “VPN at home”. The VPN protection offered by AT&T is a network-based security measure. This ensures that, no matter what device is in your home, it will get VPN protection while online. The service will connect your devices using “secure network encryption”.
Threats are constantly in people’s minds while surfing the Internet. AT&T introduced a way to monitor how your network and devices are protected by “threat activity.” Another new feature introduced by the company is “Identity Monitoring”. This service takes your email addresses, phone numbers, and other pieces of sensitive data and searches for them across the dark web. The purpose is to alert you to any “identity leaks” so that you can take appropriate action.
With these new ActiveArmor security measures, AT&T brought “Advanced Content Controls”. This page will be for parents who are looking to protect their children while they are online. The controls they implemented are intended to allow parents to control what content their children will watch by blocking or allowing it to pass through on their devices.
AT&T has done some research on customers to better understand them and communicate the reasons behind the new advanced security features. According to their data, “70% of people feel they are familiar with cybersecurity.” The company also found that “42% of respondents also admit to using the same password across multiple logins.” There are scammers constantly looking to steal your information with 48% of their customers saying they “received phishing emails”.
AT&T’s new advanced security features aim for Fiber Internet customers to give them the tools to protect themselves while enjoying the Internet. It can become one of the best internet security software (Opens in a new tab) If AT&T continues its dedication to cybersecurity.
The chart below shows AT&T data on consumer knowledge of cybersecurity and threats.
