1. Service Description
   The Security Intelligence Console is a service currently provided by Verizon Business free of charge which provides a daily and expansive view into network and computing trends and activities related to security events and information reporting.
2. Terms of Service Usage
   These Terms and Conditions of Use (the “Terms”) govern your use of the Security Intelligence Console service, its content, and any associated software and ancillary service offered through this service portal (collectively referred to herein as the “SIC Service”). The Terms are in addition to any applicable terms and conditions associated with any related products, services, user’s guides and the like related to your access of the SIC Service.
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3. License to Use
   Verizon grants you the right to utilize the SIC Service solely for the limited purpose of viewing general publicly available information related to security events and information reporting. All other purposes for accessing the SIC Service are expressly prohibited. Additionally, Verizon’s Acceptable Use Policy located at www.verizonbusiness.com/terms applies to your use of the SIC Service. Verizon may terminate your use of the SIC Service for any reason at any time and without notice to you.
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7. Data Retention
   Information displayed in the Security Intelligence Console can be accessed for a period of 90-calendar days from the date of issuance. A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user identification that the site uses to track web pages you've visited, but only contains personal information you supply. Some parts of the SIC Service use cookies to track user traffic patterns. Verizon does this in order to determine the usefulness of certain information and to see how effective its navigational structure is in helping users reach such information. This information is solely utilized for the aforementioned internal purpose and is not shared or sold to third parties.
8. Third Party Information
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^1. “Verizon” individually and collectively refers to MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business Services.

The graph below represents a number of unique source IP addresses associated with the following environments:

• Verizon Business Internet Backbone
• Verizon Business Network Sensors

By monitoring the increase in the number of source IP addresses that are actively sending traffic to the network sensors, the scope of a threat can be assessed when compared side-by-side to traffic patterns viewed over the Internet backbone. Security IT personnel can use this information to help identify the scope of an emerging threat.

Horizontal (X-axis)
The horizontal (X-axis) Indicates the current time of day in UTC time index and notation.

Vertical (Y-axis)
The vertical (Y-axis) denotes a number of unique source addresses observed across both the Verizon Business Network Sensors and Internet Backbone environments. The vertical scale has been enhanced to plot the line of this graph.

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