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We performed a comparison between Lumen DDoS Mitigation and Prolexic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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    Black Lotus, CenturyLink DDoS Mitigation
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    Overview

    Today’s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are growing in size, frequency and complexity. No enterprise is immune to these threats. Application availability, website uptime and infrastructure accessibility are all critical for business continuity. Every minute of downtime can result in lost productivity and revenue. Scrubbing center mitigation techniques alone are not designed to manage today’s massive, highly sophisticated and distributed attacks. To defend against a variety of attack types, it’s essential to deploy a multi-layered security approach backed by extensive threat research. CenturyLink provides layers of defense through enhanced network routing, rate limiting and filtering that can be paired with advanced network-based detection and mitigation scrubbing center solutions. Our mitigation approach is informed by threat intelligence derived from visibility across our global infrastructure and data correlation. Tailored for any business and IT/security budget, our flexible managed service can proactively detect and mitigate the threats of today to help ensure business-as-usual for employees, partners and customers.

    Akamai Prolexic is a cloud-based DDoS protection solution that defends your data center and hybrid infrastructure to ensure availability and uptime. It provides comprehensive port and protocol protection against the broadest range of DDoS attacks, including high-bandwidth sustained attacks and complex multi-vector attacks. Prolexic is available as an always-on or on-demand service, contains a Network Cloud Firewall, and offers flexible integration models based on your desired security posture across hybrid origins. Prolexic is backed by a proven platform with more than 20 Tbps of dedicated DDoS defense capacity and our 24/7/365 global SOCC for a fully managed solution.

    Prolexic stops DDoS attacks closer to the source to maximize performance for users and to maintain network resiliency through cloud distribution. Instead of originating advertisements for your prefixes from your cloud/data centers, you’ll make either a border gateway protocol route advertisement change or DNS redirection (A record or CNAME record) to originate from one of many Akamai scrubbing centers globally. Your intended traffic is then routed to the user via Anycast through the closest scrubbing center. Prolexic will inspect the traffic to determine if it is good or bad, and apply proactive and/or custom mitigation controls designed to stop attacks instantly if needed. This ensures fast and accurate DDoS protection. Clean traffic is then returned to the customer origin via GRE tunnels, Layer 2 VLAN connections, and/or VIP-to-origin back-end mapping with little perceived latency. Prolexic also features a Network Cloud Firewall that allows IT teams to auto generate or manually manage access control lists.

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    TMG Health, MetalForming Inc., Atlantic 10 Conference, Spil Games, Tickets.com
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Retailer9%
    Government9%
    Insurance Company8%
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    Financial Services Firm27%
    Educational Organization27%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Insurance Company6%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection
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    Lumen DDoS Mitigation is ranked 24th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection while Prolexic is ranked 14th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 1 review. Lumen DDoS Mitigation is rated 0.0, while Prolexic is rated 7.8. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prolexic writes "Scaling is very easy but more options are needed for enterprise environments". Lumen DDoS Mitigation is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS and Corero, whereas Prolexic is most compared with Akamai App and API Protector, Cloudflare DDoS, Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS and AWS Shield.

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