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DENVER, Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-- Emergency activations increase by as much as 1,200% since July

Cybersecurity experts have seen a dramatic rise (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2963995-1&h=142009601&u=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.centurylink.com%2Fis%2Fcontent%2Fcenturylink%2Flumen-new-cyber-arms-race-ddos-white-paper%3FCreativeid%3Deb33e07a-19cf-4b1a-bb3c-8c7ea86c6c36&a=dramatic+rise ) in sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDoS)

attacks in recent months. Downtime from these events cost (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2963995-1&h=918472224&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netscout.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2019-03%2FSECR_005_EN-1901%25E2%2580%2593WISR.pdf&a=cost )

businesses an average of $221,000, so the speed to react is more critical than ever.

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In response to this need, Lumen Technologies (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2963995-1&h=2315101051&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lumen.com%2F&a=Lumen+Technologies )

(NYSE: LUMN) is announcing significant upgrades to its industry-leading DDoS

Mitigation Service (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2963995-1&h=3453130313&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lumen.com%2Fen-us%2Fsecurity%2Fddos-and-web-application.html&a=DDoS+Mitigation+Service ). These new features – which can now

be activated on demand – help customers better protect their essential web-facing

assets and applications, and reduce the risk of collateral damage during attacks.

Lumen's new DDoS capabilities include:

   -- Rapid Threat Defense. This software-based, automated detection and

      response service automatically detects and immediately blocks malicious

      entities such as DDoS botnets. For customers, this means improved

      application security and availability – even against newly discovered and

      evolving threats.

      Rapid Threat Defense leverages threat intelligence developed by Black

      Lotus Labs – Lumen's threat research and response team. Lumen runs one of

      the largest IP backbones in the world, which gives Black Lotus Labs

      unsurpassed visibility to uncover and block attacks earlier than ever –

      before they ever reach customers' applications.

   -- Three-Tiered Scrubbing Architecture. Lumen believes that intelligent

      platforms are more effective at threat mitigation in a data center than

      capacity-only approaches. To that end, the company has developed a

      proprietary, three-tiered scrubbing approach that uses next-gen

      technology to mitigate attacks based on size and complexity. Intelligent

      routing sends larger, more complex attacks to the larger scrubbers, which

      ensures customers' business-critical applications continue to perform –

      both at peacetime, and while under attack.

   -- DDoS Hyper. Launched last week, DDoS Hyper is part of the new Lumen

      digital buying experience, which enables customers to order, configure,

      and deploy DDoS mitigation services via a self-service portal in minutes.

"Lumen is focused on developing platforms that help customers deploy and secure

the applications that power 4th Industrial Revolution," said Chris Smith, vice

president of global security services at Lumen. "We leverage our insights to

automate detection and response at a global scale, and this allows our

customers to maintain the critical web-facing assets that power their businesses."

"With the recent spike in DDoS attacks, the speed of response to new attacks is

more crucial than ever before," said Martha Vazquez, senior security research

analyst, IDC Research. "Service providers are at a point where they need to

speed up response times to stop these advanced attacks from occurring

immediately. Having an automated response that can prevent bad traffic from

ever reaching the customer is critical, and the ability to instantly spin up a

security service rapidly – such as with DDoS Hyper – is beneficial for those

who are already under attack or believe one is imminent."

Additional Resources:

DDoS Calculator9

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Estimate the cost of a DDoS attack White Paper (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2963995-1&h=1769972997&u=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.centurylink.com%2Fis%2Fcontent%2Fcenturylink%2Flumen-new-cyber-arms-race-ddos-white-paper%3FCreativeid%3Deb33e07a-19cf-4b1a-bb3c-8c7ea86c6c36&a=White+Paper ): The new cyber arms race – a changing attack

landscape requires a modernized strategy

Data Sheet (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2963995-1&h=3351517371&u=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.centurylink.com%2Fis%2Fcontent%2Fcenturylink%2Fddos-rtd-ddos-mitigation-datasheet%3FCreativeid%3Dd1a748a3-f225-41df-bf33-7b1f2e720122&a=Data+Sheet ): Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service features and specs

Data Sheet (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2963995-1&h=1865433309&u=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.centurylink.com%2Fis%2Fcontent%2Fcenturylink%2Flumen-data-sheet-rapid-threat-defense%3FCreativeid%3D74b4b23c-649a-475d-8f64-e525672b1004&a=Data+Sheet ): Lumen's Rapid Threat Defense capabilities

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and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most

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