Name: Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service
Author: Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)

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The Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service is a solution designed to minimize downtime and enhance application performance by providing multiple layers of defense against DDoS and application layer attacks. According to Lumen Technologies, this product is suitable for businesses of any size and caters to a wide range of professions and industries, including IT professionals, network administrators, security analysts, e-commerce companies, and financial institutions.

## Key Features

**BGP FlowSpec**: According to the vendor, the Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service automatically delivers rules to the Lumen backbone for highly scalable, global mitigation.

**Carrier-agnostic protection**: The Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service supports Lumen or third-party connections for IPv4 and IPv6 traffic with options for IP VPN Direct, Lumen Internet Direct, and GRE clean traffic return, as claimed by the vendor.

**Customer traffic onboarding**: The vendor states that traffic can be onboarded at the closest scrubbing center or at hundreds of Lumen internet service or IP VPN points of presence (POP) globally.

**1 second time to mitigate**: After most attack traffic hits scrubbing centers, the Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service claims to be able to mitigate the attack within one second, according to the vendor.

**Flow-Based Monitoring**: According to the vendor, the Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service provides early detection and notification of attacks by monitoring customer edge routers directly or Lumen network edge routers if Lumen is the internet provider.

**Supports hybrid deployment**: The vendor claims that the Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service enables integration of DDoS mitigation premises equipment via cloud signaling for local decryption capabilities.

**Proactive and reactive mitigation options**: The Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service offers a full range of proactive and reactive mitigation options, including Always-On with customer-initiated mitigation controls and On-Demand with proactive or auto-mitigation controls, according to the vendor.

**Around-the-clock support**: According to Lumen Technologies, the Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service provides support from eight global security operation centers (SOCs) across North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

**Automated detection and response**: The Rapid Threat Defense feature of the Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service is claimed by the vendor to stop DDoS bot traffic at the network level through automated detection and response.

**Rapid Threat Defense countermeasure updates**: According to the vendor, the countermeasures of the Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service are updated every 15 minutes by Black Lotus Labs to ensure the latest protection against DDoS attacks.

**Next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Bot Management solutions**: The Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service defends against application layer attacks using next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Bot Management solutions, as stated by the vendor.

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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection

CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States. The company provides broadband, voice, wireless and managed services to consumers and businesses across the country. It also offers advanced entertainment services under the CenturyLink® Prism™ TV and DIRECTV® brands. In addition, the company provides data, voice and managed services to enterprise, government and wholesale customers in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers. CenturyLink is recognized as a leader in the network services market by key technology industry analyst firms, and is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises through Savvis, a CenturyLink company. CenturyLink’s customers range from Fortune 500 companies in some of the country’s largest cities to families living in rural America. Headquartered in Monroe, La., CenturyLink is an S&amp;P 500 company and is included among the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations. For more information, visit www.centurylink.com.

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DDoS Protection

These are common features of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection solutions, intended to prevent, detect, and mitigate DDoS attacks.

Always-on monitoring

Continuously monitors traffic for spikes or suspicious patterns.

Automatic Scalability

Scales infrastructure up and down as needed to handle incoming requests to prevent 
outages during a DDoS attack.

Behavioral analysis and monitoring

Monitors network behavior to learn the difference between legitimate and malicious 
traffic patterns.

Mitigation SLA

The speed at which the tool starts mitigating a DDoS attack.

Security policy management

Flexibility to set specific rules and policies, ex; blacklisting and whitelisting specific IP 
addresses or Bots.

WAF capabilities

Offers a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect against attacks at the 
application layer.

Request rate limiting

Ability to restrict the number of requests per source to slow down or prevent 
attackers from overwhelming the system.

Traffic filtering

Identifying and blocking malicious traffic without impacting legitimate traffic.

Bot detection

Distinguishing between bots and humans, potentially through device fingerprinting, 
CAPTCHA.

Global threat intelligence

Uses threat intelligence data to block known attack patterns or malicious IPs.

Real-time analytics and reporting

Provides up-to-date network performance reporting and dashboards, allowing 
organizations to monitor potential attacks in real-time.

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Lumen DDoS Mitigation Service
Formerly CenturyLink DDoS Mitigation Service

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