Bedminster, N.J .– AT&T today announced that it has been recognized by Business Intelligence Perspectives – an  event owned by IDG’s Computerworld -- as a recipient of the “Best Practices in Business Intelligence” awards program.

AT&T received the award for Aurora, which is the technology that’s used to assure and enhance the security and reliability of the entire AT&T network.

Aurora supports the company’s internal Cyber Security and Incident Response Team, and provides the underpinnings of AT&T’s award-winning security alerting service, AT&T Internet Protect(SM). 

The award honors organizations that have applied exemplary business intelligence solutions to provide strategic advantage to their enterprise.  

“Operating and monitoring one of the world's largest, global networks, AT&T is the only service provider to deliver a predictive, proactive, cyber attack alerting service, and Aurora is the lynchpin of our cyber security prowess,” said Hossein Eslambolchi, chief technology officer of AT&T. “We’re pleased IDG’s Computerworld recognizes our leadership in leveraging business intelligence technologies to defend and protect our global network, and the networks of our customers,” he said.

A wide range of IT end-user companies and organizations responded to an initial “call for nominations,” which was originally announced to multiple industry audiences, including Computerworld subscribers responsible for business intelligence solutions. Finalists were evaluated by a panel of judges based on case study submissions that profiled the company, its IT department and business intelligence challenges, as well as application deployment details, summaries of the key technology used and measurable solution outcomes.

“Recipients of this year’s Business Intelligence Perspectives’ ‘Best Practices in Business Intelligence’ awards span across varied marketplaces and sectors, ranging from telecommunications to education,” said Ron Milton, executive vice president, Computerworld. “We honor each of these diverse organizations for their cutting edge IT departments, and their ability to prove that exceptional BI technology solutions can bring about outstanding results.”

About Computerworld
Computerworld, the “Voice of IT Management,” is the most trusted source for the critical information needs of senior IT management. Computerworld’s integrated offerings form the U.S.-based hub of the world’s largest (58-edition) global IT media network through its weekly publication, Computerworld.com Web site, focused conference series and custom research. In the past five years alone, Computerworld  has won more than 100 print and online awards for editorial and design excellence, surpassing its direct competition by an order of magnitude. Recognition includes the 2005 Magazine of the Year Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and a Jesse H. Neal Award for “Best News Coverage.” In print since 1967, Computerworld  is the source for information technology management, with a guaranteed rate base of 180,050, a total print audience of 1,138,000 (IntelliQuest CIMS 2005 Business Influencer Study) and an online audience of over 1 million unique monthly visitors (DoubleClick).

Computerworld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading technology media, research and events company. A privately held company, IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers, including Bio-IT World, CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Network World and PC World. The company features the largest network of technology-specific Web sites, with more than 400 around the world. IDG is also a leading producer of more than 170 computer-related events worldwide, including LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®, Macworld Conference & Expo®, DEMO® and IDC Directions. IDC provides global market research and advice through offices in 50 countries. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com.