Lumen Technologies’ (NYSE:LUMN) Receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Global New Product Innovation Award

With the Fourth Industrial Revolution rapidly transforming how businesses work, Lumen Technologies’ (NYSE:LUMN) efforts to redefine the enterprise security landscape have been recognized with the award of the Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Global New Product Innovation Award.

Lumen awarded for its innovative web and application protection solutions

The company is the only recipient of the award in the holistic web protection markets. Lumen was awarded for its enterprise security solutions combination including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Mitigation. The company’s DDoS Mitigation solution is backed by 85 Tbps mitigation capacity across its global scrubbing centers with the latest intelligent routing. This technology reduces mean-time-to-detect and to-resolve attacks by 75 %. Currently, the service is available through the turn-up model and vial DDoS hyper which is an emergency turn-up solution allowing customers to activate DDoS protection quickly. Equally, the DDoS Mitigation solution includes Rapid threat defense powered by Black Lotus Labs®’ intelligence to offer automated detection and real-time threats.

Other solutions combination includes the Web Application Firewall (WAF) which offers the vital application and web protection and more business move to the edge cloud. WAF has been designed to minimize costly data downtime and breaches through a combination of defenses that pinpoint and mitigate attacks accurately without interrupting customers. There is also Bot Risk Management (BRM) which is vital in bot management. Lumen has partnered with the east-of-breed security providers to automatically differentiate bad traffic from good and also stop sophisticated attacks.

Lumen Technologies offering solutions for emerging tech and data-sensitive 4IR

Lumen Technologies’ platform applications VP Christopher Smith said that they are aware that businesses are searching for a trusted partner on the edge. Smith said that businesses are facing new challenges requiring them to use and capitalize on their data at unimaginable speeds. He added that emerging tech and data-intensive 4IR needs require speed and the company’s networking, security, and cloud solutions have been powered to these next-generation, latency-sensitive business applications. Smith added that they are honored to receive the Frist & Sullivan award for the innovation Lumen delivers to this front.