LUMEN
“ A year ago , around the US Presidential election , the industry was seeing around a million attacks a month ”
CHRISTOPHER SMITH VICE PRESIDENT PRODUCT MANAGEMENT , PLATFORM APPLICATIONS , LUMEN
LUMEN GOES DIGITAL TO COMBAT DDOS THREATS
DID YOU KNOW ...
A distributed denial-of-service
( DDoS ) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server , service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic .
DDoS is a nuisance , to put it mildly . Lumen mitigated attacks that targeted one company more than 1,300 times – but this number is just the tip of the iceberg .
“ A year ago , around the US Presidential election , the industry was seeing around a million attacks a month – it was overwhelming for our operations team as we were doing it manually ,” says Smith . “ Now it ’ s digital – you go to our marketplace , agree to a few commercial terms , point-andclick , hit ‘ scrub ’ and we fix it for you .”
“ For years we ’ ve said that the hardware , software , and network worlds were coming together – but the reality is that it ’ s already here . So , we ’ re reimagining how we deliver network , security , compute and application integration and support , over the top , as a platform ,” he says .
“ We give the ability to consume SD-WAN across a variety of providers , and expect this year to deliver our SD-WAN services ‘ over the top ’ – as an Edge Gateway or softwarebased capability and full digital experience . That ’ s not just installation but extends all the way through activation and management , paired with firewall capabilities .”
Smith describes the current focus on experience as the ‘ wrapper ’. “ We ’ ve done a lot of work to simplify our offers and provide an Amazon-like experience ,” he says . “ We are reinventing ourselves .”
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