Deutsche Telekom Bolsters Security to Revive Fixed-Line Business

Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany’s largest phone company, plans to bolster its ailing fixed-line Internet business by making its network indispensable to smaller companies seeking safety from cyber attacks.

Customers are testing the Clean Pipe service, which will allow them to run security systems such as firewall and e-mail security through Deutsche Telekom’s servers instead of their own, according to Juergen Kohr, who heads Bonn-based Deutsche Telekom’s new cybersecurity unit. The company plans to move the entire system to its network over coming years, he said.