AT&T To Promote Off Cybersecurity Enterprise: Report

February 21, 2023, 06:15 PM EST

As AT&T continues its technique to put all its chips on its core telecom enterprise, the service is reportedly contemplating the sale of its five-year-old cybersecurity enterprise unit.

AT&T is mulling the sale of its five-year-old cybersecurity unit, in response to a brand new report.

The service big’s cybersecurity options enterprise, which was launched in 2018, contains belongings from AT&’s buy of open-source risk intelligence agency AlienVault in the identical yr. The corporate has been working with Barclays to discover bids for its cybersecurity enterprise, in response to a report from Reuters.

Dallas-based AT&T didn’t reply to CRN’s request for touch upon the alleged selloff by publication time.

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The cybersecurity unit was created to make AlienVault’s cybersecurity applied sciences and AT&T’s present safety capabilities accessible to all companies, from Fortune 100 firms all the way in which down the chain to native mom-and-pop shops, the service stated in 2018. The enterprise unit as we speak gives safety consulting providers, endpoint safety, community safety, and risk detection and response providers.

Prior to now 5 years, nevertheless, AT&T has turn into more and more centered on its core telecom enterprise. Elliott Administration in 2019 revealed a $3.2 billion stake in AT&T and laid out a collection of adjustments supposed to spice up AT&T’s inventory worth and assist it return to its telecom roots. The corporate in 2022 spun off its hard-fought $85.4 billion deal for Time Warner, which grew to become WarnerMedia below AT&T. AT&T stated final yr that the spinoff gave the corporate room to “focus intensely” on 5G and fiber-based connectivity development and on revamping its declining enterprise wireline section.

AT&T has stated that it minimize its internet debt by about $24 billion in 2022 and the corporate is trying to trim one other $32 billion by 2025.

Monetary phrases of any potential deal haven’t been disclosed and it’s not clear how a lot AT&T’s cybersecurity enterprise is price as we speak, in response to the report.