LUMEN portfolios that leverage this intel to help protect our customers proactively .”
Rapid Threat Defense To offer proactive protection , Lumen has developed a capability called Rapid Threat Defense . “ It ’ s a capability not a product ,” states Smith . “ My mantra for the security practice is that it ’ s not something separate from the things we sell , but built in . So , if you ' re buying network connectivity , SD-WAN or UC , security is built in .
Smith explains Rapid Threat Defense is one of those built-in ingredients . “ Security engineers take the threat intel they see on the network and build it into the data lake supplemented by third party intelligence we either pay or partner for ,” Smith adds . “ When threats become active , we ' ve got a softwarebased policy engine that can push blocks to any of the devices we manage – such as Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls – to prevent you from ever talking to that threat .”
Rapid Threat Defense is also built into Lumen ’ s DDoS practice . “ If we see a DDoS attack forming out of the network , we will put a policy block into all of our global scrubbers , so the attack can never hit a scrubber and never hit a customer . It gets black-holed off the network .”
Smith sees this approach as a policy remediation engine that means customers don ’ t have to take action themselves .
“ If you ' re a CISO and you ' re managing the edge of your network , you ' ve got SD-WAN devices and firewalls , and you have to pay a bunch of expensive , hard-to-hire people to manage the policies on all those devices . It ' s not hard , but it ' s complex , tedious work that
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