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>> Hey, welcome back, everybody.
Jeff Frick here with The Cube.
We're at the RSA Convention in downtown San Francisco.
40,000 people talking security, trying to keep you safe.
Keep your car safe, your nest safe,
microwave safe, refrigerator safe.
>> Everything safe. >> Oh my gosh.
Jason Porter, VP, Security Solutions from AT&T, welcome.
>> Very good, thanks for having me, Jeff.
>> So what are your impressions of the show?
This is a crazy event.
>> It is crazy, I mean look at all the people.
It's the crowds, it's a lot of fun.
The best part is just walking the hallways,
getting to connect with friends and network
and really create new solutions to help our customers.
>> It seems to be a reoccurring theme.
Everybody sees everybody who's involved
in this space is here today.
>> Absolutely, yeah, for the next couple of days
it's just all in all the time.
>> AT&T, obviously, big network, you guys are carrying
all this crazy IP traffic that's got good stuff
and bad stuff, a lot of fast-moving parts,
a ton more data flying through the system.
What's kind of your step-back view of what's going on
and how are you guys addressing new challenges with
5G and IoT and an ever-increasing amount of data-flow
through the network?
>> Absolutely, so you're right, at AT&T,
we see a ton of traffic.
We see 130 petabytes of traffic everyday across our network,
so our threat-platform,
we pull in five billion threat events every 10 minutes.
So-- >> Wait, one more time.
Five billion with a B? >> Five billion events
every 10 minutes.
>> Every 10 minutes. >> So, that's what our
big data platform is analyzing with our data scientists
and our math, so, lots of volume and activity going on.
We have 200 million inpoints,
all feeding that threat-platform as well.
What are we seeing?
We're seeing threats continuing to to grow.
Obviously, everybody here at this show knows it,
but give you some concrete examples,
we've seen a 4,000% increase in IoT vulnerability scanning.
IoT is something as a community, as a group here,
we definitely need to go solve
and that's why we launched our
IoT Security Alliance last week.
We formed an alliance with some big names out there,
like Palo Alto Networks and IBM and Trustonic and others
that really, we all have a passion in going out
and solving IoT security.
It's the number one barrier or concern for adopting IoT.
>> You touched on all kinds of stuff there.
>> A whole ton of stuff, sorry. >> Let's go to the big data.
>> Yeah. >> What's interesting
about big data and I always tell kids, right?
Every coin has two sides. >> Absolutely.
>> The bad part is you've got that much more data
to sort through, but the good news is you can use
a lot of those same tools.
Obviously, it's not a guy sitting with a pager
waiting for a red light to go off.
>> That's right. >> Analyzing that.
How has the big data tools helped you guys
to be able to see the threats faster,
to react to them faster? >> Yeah.
>> To really be more proactive?
>> That's a great point, so cyber security
is a zero percent unemployment field, right?
>> People, you can't get enough people
to come work in Cyber security who have the right talent.
We had to really evolve.
A few years ago, we had to make a big shift that we were not
going to just put platforms and people watching screens,
looking for blinking red lights, right?
We made the shift to a big data threat platform
that's basically doing the work
of identifying the threats without the people,
so we're able to analyze at machine-speed
instead of people-speed, which allows us to, as I said,
get through many more events.
>> Right. >> Much more quickly
and allows us to eliminate false-positives
and keep our people working really at that,
looking at those new threats, those things
that we want the people analyzing.
>> Right, so the next thing you talked about is IoT.
>> Yep. >> My favorite part of Iot
is autonomous vehicles just cause I live in Palo Alto.
>> Absolutely. >> We see the Google Cars
and they're coming soon, right?
>> Absolutely. >> But, now you're talking
about moving in a 3,000 pound vehicle.
>> Yeah. >> Potentially, somebody
takes control, so security's so important for IoT.
The good news for you guys, 5G's got to be a big part of it.
>> Absolutely. >> Not necessarily
just for security, but enablement, so you guys
are right the heart of IoT.
>> Yeah, we are, we have one of the largest
IoT deployments in the world.
We have the most connected devices and so, what we see
is really a need for a layered approach to security.
You mentioned 5G, 5G's certainly a part of getting capacity
to that, but when you moved to IoT with connected cars
and things, you move beyond data harm to physical harm
for people and so we've got to be able to up our game
and so a layered approach, securing that device,
us putting malware detection, but even threat
and monitoring what's going on between the hardware
and the operating system and the user
and then segmenting, say, in a car,
telematics from infotainment right?
You want to really segment the telematics so that the controls
of driving and stopping that car
are separate from the infotainment, the internet traffic,
the video watching for my kids.
>> Right, Spotify, or whatever, right, right right.
>> Absolutely and so we do that through SMS,
private SMS user groups, private APNs, VPNs,
those kinds of things and then of course,
you want to build that castle around your data.
Your control unit that's managing that car.
Make sure you do full UTM threat capabilities.
Throw everything you can at that.
We've even got some specialized solutions that we've built
with some three-letter agencies
to really monitor that control point.
>> Right, then the last thing you touched on
is really partnership. >> Okay.
>> And coopetition. >> Yep.
>> And sharing which has to be done
at a scale that it wasn't before--
>> Absolutely. >> To keep up with the bad guys
because apparently, they're sharing all their stuff
amongst each other all the time.
>> Yeah, absolutely. >> And here we are,
40,000 people, it's an eco-system.
How is that evolving in terms of kind of the way
that you share data that maybe you wouldn't have wanted
to share before for the benefit of the whole?
>> Yeah, so, our threat platform, we built it
with that in mind with sharing, so it's all,
it's surrounded by an API layer, so that we can actually
extract data for our customers.
Our customers can give us their date.
It's interesting, I thought they would want to pull data,
but our biggest customers said, no, you know what?
We want your data scientists and your math
looking at our environment too, so they wanted to push data,
but speaking about alliances overall,
it's got to be a community as you said.
And our IoT Security Alliance is a great example of that.
We've got some big suppliers in there, like Palo Alto,
but we also have IBM.
IBM and AT&T are two of the largest
manage-security companies in the planet,
so you would think competition, but we came together
in this situation because we feel like
IoT's one of those things we got to get right as a community.
>> Right, right, all right, Jason.
I'll give you the last words.
>> Okay. >> 2017, we're just
getting started, what are kind of your priorities
for this year, what will we be talking about
a year from now at RSA 2018?
>> You're going to continue to hear more about attack types,
different attack types, the expanding threats surface of IoT
but I think you're going to continue to hear more about
our critical infrastructure being targeted.
You saw with the dying attack, you're starting to take out
major pieces that are impacting people's lives
and so you think about power grids and moving into some
more critical infrastructure, I think that's going to be
more and more the flavor of the day
as you continue to progress through the year.
>> All right, well hopefully you get good night's sleep.
We want you working hard, we're all rooting for ya.
>> Absolutely, we're all working on it
>> All right, he's Jason Porter from AT&T.
I'm Jeff Frick with The Cube.
You're watching The Cube from RSA Conference San Francisco.
Thanks for watching.
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