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

Cybersecurity experts have seen a dramatic rise( 
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) in sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent 
months. Downtime from these events cost( 
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) 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( 
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) (NYSE: LUMN) is announcing significant upgrades to its industry-leading DDoS 
Mitigation Service( 
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). 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( 
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): The new cyber arms race – a changing attack landscape requires a modernized 
strategy 
Data Sheet( 
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): Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service features and specs 
Data Sheet( 
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): Lumen's Rapid Threat Defense capabilities

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