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Defend your digital infrastructure and minimize downtime with flexible, intelligent DDoS solutions.

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Flexible DDoS defense built for performance

Lumen DDoS Mitigation Solutions provide adaptive, multi-layered protection tailored for digital ecosystems. Backed by cutting-edge threat intelligence from Black Lotus Labs®, our services proactively detect and mitigate volumetric attacks, helping you maintain service resiliency and availability.

80%

time saved from increased productivity for Lumen DDoS mitigation customers1

$3.4M

projected increase in net operating profit for DDoS mitigation customers over three years1

297%

projected ROI over 3 years for DDoS mitigation customers1

$376K

three-year value increase in compliance team productivity due to fewer DDoS attacks1

Proven threat and attack visibility

High-fidelity threat intelligence provided by Black Lotus Labs identifies botnet networks executing volumetric attacks, enabling real-time mitigation at the network edge.

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Proactive prevention with next-gen scrubbing

Our next-generation intelligent routing technology monitors and diverts only the traffic under attack to the scrubbing infrastructure to further reduce collateral damage.

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Lumen® DDoS Essentials

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Automated detection and response with Lumen® Rapid Threat Defense

170 Tbps of network-based mitigation capacity

Type of mitigation
On-demand	Always-on or on-demand
IP protection
IPv4	IPv4, IPv6
Attack monitoring
Lumen Network	Lumen Network or customer router (CPE)
Attack size mitigation
Unlimited	Unlimited
Contract and billing currency
Available in the U.S.	Global with some restrictions
Real-time data processing
Automated mitigation	Automated mitigation Customer-initiated SOC-assisted
Optional add‑ons: Web application firewall offering Layer 7 defense