Network, Cloud, and Managed Security Services from Lumen Technologies

CenturyLink, Inc. renamed itself Lumen Technologies in 2020 and kept the CenturyLink name as its consumer and small business brand; corporate headquarters remain in Monroe, Louisiana. The company sells network, voice, cloud, and managed security services to enterprises, government agencies, and service providers, with the security business now marketed under the Lumen brand. Buyers are typically organizations already purchasing connectivity that want monitoring and mitigation attached to the same circuits.

The managed security portfolio spans DDoS Mitigation and DDoS Essentials, Managed Premises Firewall Services, a web application firewall, Managed SIEM with 24/7 administration, a Virtual SOC that watches SIEM events continuously, and a Managed Endpoint Detection and Response service. Adaptive managed detection and response is offered for Microsoft Sentinel and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM, so organizations that have already chosen a SIEM or XDR platform can have it operated rather than replaced.

Threat intelligence comes from Black Lotus Labs, the company's research arm, which feeds detection and blocking decisions including the Lumen Defender service. Because the company operates one of the larger global IP backbones, volumetric mitigation happens upstream on the network rather than only at the customer edge, which is the main argument it makes against appliance-only vendors. Services attach to existing data center, edge, and multi-cloud connectivity contracts.