OREANDA-NEWS. NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within NTT (NYSE: NTT), announced today that it will begin offering web application firewalls (WAF) used in both NTT Com's Enterprise Cloud service and the private-cloud infrastructure of enterprises or service infrastructure of cloud providers.

This new function as an Enterprise Cloud's optional base, known as Integrated Security Appliance: Web Security (WAF), beginning September 30 in Japan and from December overseas.

The function will also be offered with NTT Com's WideAngle managed-security services for the cloud environments of individual enterprises and cloud providers. Launches will begin in the first quarter of 2016 in Japan and selected overseas countries, with further expansions in Asia, North America and Europe planned.

The new function will enable enterprises to use WAF, in addition to basic security functions such as Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and URL filtering, to deploy speedy, affordable security measures for websites operated on cloud infrastructure.

NTT Com launched a one-stop unified threat management (UTM) service as an Enterprise Cloud's optional base in Japan this past January. The service, which combines IPS software for virtual environments, URL filtering, anti-virus, spam mail prevention for web and email and managed security for enterprise cloud infrastructure and cloud providers' service infrastructure, will now be expanded in France, Germany, Spain and the U.K from September 30, and additional countries thereafter.

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and 130 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.