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CenturyLink Offers DDoS Mitigation Service

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May 13, 2014

CenturyLink Offers DDoS Mitigation Service

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By David Delony
Contributing Writer

CenturyLink has announced that it will offer a service to help businesses mitigate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

"DDoS attacks continue to evolve, becoming more sophisticated in scale and complexity and resulting in greater downtime for organizations," said Chris Richter, vice president of managed security products and services, at CenturyLink (News - Alert) Technology Solutions. "We designed our DDoS service to enable global protection through multiple cleansing centers around the world and flexible commercial terms. With the integration of a network-based solution with an on-site appliance, we can further serve businesses that require always-on mitigation and deliver protection for multiple third-party networks while providing full visibility and reporting across all of their networks."


CenturyLink’s DDoS Mitigation Service detects malicious traffic through both network appliances and teams of human security experts. The service attempts to stop malicious packets from getting through to a network, over CenturyLink’s own networks, third-party networks or networks on customer premises.

Pricing is based on usage, and there is no need to install any additional hardware or software.

By CenturyLink’s own estimation, 50 percent of IT leaders have suffered some kind of DDoS attack over the last three years according to an internal study. At the same time, these attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated.

Suffering a DDoS attack or other security breach can damage a company’s reputation, as well as causing lost business for the duration of the attack. These kinds of attacks are increasingly coming from organized crime rather than the popular image of teenage hackers in their bedrooms. Short of adding more capacity, businesses will have to find ways to thwart these attacks.

"Businesses need to be proactive and vigilant when it comes to protecting their assets from potential DDoS attacks," said Christina Richmond, program director, security services, at IDC (News - Alert). "With CenturyLink's new mitigation appliance option, the company moves to a higher echelon of DDoS mitigation providers that offer true defense-in-depth designed to mitigate DDoS attacks at multiple layers and further extends its already-strong security portfolio."




Edited by Maurice Nagle


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