World News – US – Lumen Beefs Up DDoS Mitigation Service with Automation

Lumen Technologies has improved its Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation service to combat the rise in attacks in recent months

New features can be activated on demand They help customers better protect their assets and web applications In addition, they reduce the risk of collateral damage during attacks

“DDoS attacks target mission-critical applications that face the Internet and generate interactions with a customer,” he said. “Think e-commerce sites, games, financial commerce sites, health care, etc »

« From mid-sized businesses to some of the biggest brands on the planet, to public sector agencies, if they do business on the Internet they can be vulnerable to DDoS attacks, » he said. declared

“DDoS attacks are intended to alter or delete an application that faces the Internet,” said Smith “They do this by flooding the application with unwanted traffic, making it unusable by the end user This results in significant costs to the business in the form of downtime, remediation costs, damage to reputation, etc. One report cited the cost of downtime alone to average over $ 200,000 « 

« Considering that we mitigate over 140 DDoS attacks every day (over 51,000 per year) and have seen emergency DDoS activations increase by 1,200% since July alone, it is clear that DDoS attacks – time, global problem, ”said Smith“ For our customers, DDoS protection means their applications keep running – and their businesses keep moving forward – despite malicious actors taking advantage of someone one more as we speak »

“With the recent spike in DDoS attacks, the speed of response to new attacks is more critical than ever,” said Martha Vazquez, senior security research analyst at IDC Research “Service providers are at a point where they need to speed up response times to prevent these advanced attacks from happening immediately « 

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