Dec 5, 2022
Lumen mitigated DDoS attacks that targeted a single company more than 1,300 times
Latest DDoS report reminds businesses that anyone can be target; vigilant defenses are key
DENVER, May 12, 2022 Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) continues to track Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks around the world, and today the company released a report that details the DDoS statistics and trends for the first quarter 2022.
Key Findings:
- The number of DDoS attacks that Lumen scrubbed in Q1 2022 increased by 66% compared to Q4 2021, and by 32% compared to Q1 2021.
- Of the 500 largest attacks in Q1, 97% targeted the Telecommunications, Gaming, Software and Technology, Hosting, and Government verticals.
- Lumen protected one organization from more than 1,300 DDoS attacks more than 20% of the total number of attacks scrubbed during the entire quarter.
- The same organization accounted for the largest bandwidth attack that has ever passed through Lumens scrubbing centers at 775 Gbps.
Our first-quarter data shows just how important it is for businesses to maintain solid cyber defense strategies, said Beth Kohler, senior director of Security Product Management for Lumen. Anyone can be the target of a large attack at any time. Even a few minutes of downtime can cause serious damage to a companys operations, revenue and reputation. Because the highly targeted customer uses Lumens Always-On DDoS Mitigation Service with Rapid Threat Defense, many attacks are blocked before they can do any damage. We can only imagine the harm these criminals could have caused to our customer (and their customers) had these attacks succeeded.
Read the full report here: https://tinyurl.com/Q1DDoSReport
Other Findings:
- The largest packet rate-based attack scrubbed in Q1 was 127 Mpps, which was more than double what Lumen mitigated in Q4.
- The longest DDoS attack period Lumen mitigated for an individual customer in Q1 2022 lasted five days.
- Thirty two percent of all DDoS mitigations were single-vector, TCP SYN flooding attacks. This indicates that many actors are still relying on simple, tried-and-true attack methods.
- Multi-vector attacks seem to be the tactic of choice for the gaming and telecommunications sectors represented 38% of all DDoS mitigations.
Additional Resources:
- To read previous DDoS reports, visit the archive.
- Learn how to recognize the signs of a DDoS attack: How to Tell if Your Business is Suffering from a DDoS Attack.
- Learn more about Lumen DDoS Mitigation and Application Security Services.
- See how Lumen can turn up DDoS mitigation services in as little 15 minutes with the on-demand or always-on services of DDoS Hyper, available through the Lumen Marketplace.
- Find out how threat intelligence from Black Lotus Labs helps keep the internet clean.
About Lumen Technologies and the People of Lumen:
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately 450,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about the Lumen network, edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at news.lumen.com/home, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies. Lumen and Lumen Technologies are registered trademarks in the United States.
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Oct 20, 2022
Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award
Award is reserved for companies at the forefront of innovation and growth in their respective industries.
MIAMI, FL, October 27, 2022 Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, received Frost & Sullivans prestigious 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award, recognizing the company for its excellence in best practices in the Latin America data center services industry.
As digital transformation continues to be a key organizational goal for Latin American businesses, it is even more crucial to address challenges such as the growing need for hyperscale capacity from public cloud providers, over-the-top (OTT) content, and media segments, which play a significant role in enterprises increasing demand for data center colocation services during their digital transformation paths. Cirions go-to-market strategy goes beyond its vast expertise and best-in-class capabilities, with customer value as a strategic imperative.
This recognition by Frost & Sullivan underscores Cirions commitment to furthering technology in Latin America and providing the best customer experience possible, said Gabriel del Campo, VP Data Center, Cloud & Security for Cirion Technologies. We strive to understand customers business dynamic and objectives, and to obtain the necessary information to design, offer, implement, and support a suitable solution that allows them to carry forward their business strategies.
Cirion relies on its extensive salesforce and solid presence across Latin America to offer seamless solutions through a combination of network strength and data center footprint and managed services that bridge the cloud, IT infrastructure, and the Edge for workloads and applications, ultimately providing a complete end-to-end solution for optimal performance where digital interaction occurs. Its robust infrastructure, network, and data center options are aligned with market trends and needs. Cirions recent investments in new high-capacity data centers in the region showcase the companys expansion in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.
Frost & Sullivan believes that innovation and growth opportunities drive future success, and having a competitive strategy is critical, said Steven Lopez, Best Practices Research Analyst for Frost & Sullivan. Cirion Technologies understands this core concept and is leading the data center services market with its focused presence across Latin America and ability to address customer needs with low latency Edge network offerings. We strongly believe that the company is well-positioned to drive the colocation data centers space into its next growth phase, capturing market share and sustaining its leadership in the coming years.
In 2020, Frost & Sullivan recognized Cirion Technologies (previously Lumens Latin American business, and now an independent company within the Stonepeak portfolio) globally in the holistic web protection market, in 2021 for its excellence in collaboration services, and in 2022 as Latin America Enterprise Services Company of the Year.
Key Facts:
- Criteria used to gauge Cirions performance against competitors in the 2022 Competitive Strategy Leadership Award include two key factors: strategy innovation and customer impact.
- Cirion Technologies is leading the data center services market with its focused presence across Latin America and ability to address customer needs with low latency Edge network offerings.
- Cirions recent investments in new high-capacity data centers in the region showcase Cirion Technologies expansion in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.
- Cirion offers a wide range of data center services, including colocation, hosting, network storage, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, DDoS and integrated security solutions, all backed by a superior network infrastructure and a highly interconnected and fully redundant Data Center platform, thereby allowing the company to satisfy the regions unmet market needs.
- Cirion was recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Latin American Enterprise Services Provider Company of the Year Award in 2022, 2019, 2018 and 2016.
- Cirion received the 2018 Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership in the MPLS/IP-VPN Services Market.
About the Award:
- Frost & Sullivan is an international consulting company dedicated to helping clients accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in innovation and leadership.
- Frost & Sullivans Competitive Strategy Leadership Award recognizes the company with a stand-out approach to achieving top-line growth and a superior customer experience.
- Frost & Sullivan industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices.
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About Cirion:
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin Americas progress through technology. Cirion serves over 6,400 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
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Oct 20, 2022
Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cirion with the 2022 Latin America Enterprise Services Company of the Year Award
MIAMI, FL, October, 20, 2022 Frost & Sullivan awarded Cirion Technologies its prestigious Latin America Company of the Year Award for enterprise services, recognizing Cirion for its strong overall performance and effective strategy.
As digital transformation continues to be a key organizational goal for Latin American businesses, it is even more crucial to address challenges such as finding suitable, cost-effective network services that seamlessly integrate the various technology platforms, applications, and services a business uses.
“After extensive research in this field, Frost & Sullivan firmly believes Cirions outstanding infrastructure and extensive service portfolio, along with its dedication to identifying and addressing the obstacles of digital transformation and efficiency, successfully meets the unmet needs of enterprises and government agencies, said Ignacio Perrone, Research Director for Frost & Sullivan. Cirions unparalleled expertise in the convergent telecom-IT services arena earns the company an undisputed place as a full enterprise service provider.
As part of its analysis, Frost & Sullivan found that many customers face big decisions regarding IT investments that will support their digital transformation and communications initiatives. Based on Frost & Sullivans research, Cirion has positioned itself well, with products and services to help customers integrate existing platforms and bring new services online.
Cirion captured a first-mover advantage in bringing to market a first-of-its-kind product and agreement package in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution in Latin America. Enabling the next generation of network optimization, Cirions SD-WAN empowers organizations with intelligent routing, faster branch site deployment, centralized policy management, and direct internet connectivity to public clouds and cloud applications.
Cirion raises the standard to the next level for its range of value-added, managed, and data center services, with a broad unified communications and collaboration solutions suite for the traditional Ethernet and broadband infrastructure, said Perrone.
Cirion is committed to partnering with Latin American businesses to achieve their technological goals and continue on their digital transformation journeys, said Leonardo Barbero, President & EVP of Products and Sales for Cirion Technologies. Enterprises are facing an ever-changing technology landscape, with high-capacity demands, security concerns, and the need to migrate to new platforms. This recognition by Frost & Sullivan validates our efforts to deliver a simple enterprise user experience with sophisticated capabilities and reinforces Cirions ongoing leadership in delivering a wide range of services that meet our customers needs, all while providing a high level of service.
Key Facts:
- The criteria used to gauge Cirions performance against competitors in the Company of the Year Award category include two key factors: growth performance and customer impact.
- Cirions value-added services, reinforced by its innovative solutions, position the company as a best-in-class leader in Latin America.
- Cirion offers a range of services, including SD-WAN, CDN, WAN optimization, and network management, all backed by a superior network infrastructure, allowing the company to satisfy the regions unmet market needs.
- Cirion was recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Latin American Company of the Year Award with enterprise services provider market in 2019, 2018 and 2016.
- Cirion received the 2018 Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership in the MPLS/IP-VPN services market.
About the Award:
- Frost & Sullivan is an international consulting company dedicated to helping clients accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in innovation and leadership.
- Frost & Sullivans Best Practices Award recognizes companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development.
- Frost & Sullivan industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices.
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About Cirion:
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin America´s progress through technology. Cirion serves over 6,400 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
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Sep 28, 2022
Cirion expands its Managed Network Services with Secure SD-WAN
Cirion combines high-quality connectivity and cybersecurity experience with Secure SD-WAN solution, thus converging security and networks to reduce complexity and costs.
MIAMI, FL. September 28 2022 – Cirion announced the expansion of its secure SD-WAN Managed Service, delivering organizations with networks and security in a single, high-value-added converging solution for customers.
SD-WAN allows organizations of all sizes enhance their experience in application use as well as user’s experience, while enabling flexibility and bottom-line benefits of a hybrid network.
Network Transformation to support remote work, cloud access from anywhere, and inclusion of IoT devices lead to a broader attack surface, which means that perimeter-based traditional security is not enough. Organizations that procrastinated the decision to tackle this issue have incurred in unnecessary costs, complexities, and risks in their networks.
To deal with cyberthreats new scale and variety, which continues to grow at an alarming rate, the implementation of Secure SD-WAN is imperative, since it entails the evolution of traditional perimeter security protecting the network in a comprehensive and native way.
With Secure SD-WAN, Cirion expands its offer with more benefits for their customers, including:
- Enhanced performance and experience: customized configuration where critical applications traffic is prioritized in real time to improve network performance and accelerate cloud services adoption and integration.
- Efficient Operations: overall site management, troubleshooting and service activation in new branches by means of a friendly web portal.
- Integrated Security: this solution combines unified connectivity and security capabilities to preserve networks integrity and availability.
- Reduced cost and improved ROI: single, integrated security and connectivity solution that enables faster convergence, thus bringing cost decrease and higher return on investment.
Latin America is in a particularly good place as far as appropriation and use of this technology is concerned. In this context, Cirion becomes a great partner for those organizations seeking to implement faster and safer digital transformation solutions, says Javier Colucci, SD-WAN Product Manager for Cirion in Latin America. We are an ally for their businesses and we accompany them to follow the path of innovation and the adoption of relevant and key technologies.
Cirions experts support customers in every implementation and operation stages, from initial configuration and deployment up to monitoring, management, and continuous improvement.
About Cirion
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin America´s progress through technology. Cirion serves over 6,400 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
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Jun 10, 2022
CFG-Copeinca and Cirion: A business relationship based on trust, effectiveness, efficiency, and support
- Strategic partnership between both companies started in 2016 with the migration of CFG-Copeinca’s first data center.
- Currently, Cirion provides SD-WAN, data center, and cloud services to the fishing giant.
Lima, Peru. October, 2022. Long-lasting business relationships are based on trust, support, continuous presence during important times, and understanding the strategic needs of the business. These were instrumental factors in the business relationship between Cirion and CFG-Copeinca, which started in mid-2016 when the latter migrated its first data center to Cirion’s[1] facilities.
Our internal data center was in La Victoria, but an incident almost caused a fire. Fortunately, there were no personal injuries, but it could have jeopardized operations at headquarters. As a result, we decided to migrate our critical services to Cirion’s data center, which offered a better technology, with modern equipment and safe, reliable, world-class facilities, recalls Julio Aquino, Information Technology Manager at CFG-Copeinca.
In 2017, the fishing company consolidated its trust in Cirion’s services and its highly skilled team, always ready to meet their demands. That same year, CFG-Copeinca was to dismantle a data center located in Hong Kong and transfer it to Lima in only seven days.
We turned to several providers, who told us that it wasn’t enough time and that there would be logistical issues. Furthermore, they did not have personnel to accompany us to Hong Kong, and one of the challenges was to travel with a technician specialized in infrastructure and migration issues. Cirion accepted the challenge and we traveled with one of their engineers. In six days, we had completed the operation and on the seventh, we started operating in Peru. That was the start of our successful relationship. Later, we evolved to other platforms and currently, we also count on cloud services. We are growing together, says the executive.
Another feature considered of vital importance by the executive is Cirion’s readiness which, together with its last-generation technology, helps this strategic partnership grow stronger over time. This is why CFG-Copeinca through its Information Technology Management trusted the implementation of other solutions to Cirion’s specialists.
The deployment of a new MPLS network, for instance, was the first approach to the organization’s needs for better communications between offices, meeting the requirement of better connectivity along the entire Peruvian coast where the company has plants, and offering uninterrupted connections and high-level security. Then, to maintain availability levels, the installation of contingency services was agreed upon.
At that time, contingency connections didn’t offer great speed, but they avoided disconnections when other operators’ signals went down, since some areas didnt count on Cirions connections. Over time, we migrated to a new technology: SD-WAN. This transition, proposed by Cirion, ensures us that everything works timely, securely, with extreme visibility and control of business applications. It also gives us peace of mind to be able to automatically count on high-availability connectivity, leveraging the entire bandwidth available”, explains the spokesman.
Finally, he underscores the flexibility of Cirion’s professionals and their commitment to customers, which allows companies to maintain their regular and optimal operations. In addition, he highlights the confidence passed on by specialists when solving their issues and listening to their suggestions, as well as the last-generation technology offered.
The fishing industry is very dynamic, and we need our partners to be nimble, adaptable, and able to provide us with viable and immediate solutions. Lastly, their constant support and consulting before, during and after the deployment of their solutions, are factors we truly value, concludes Julio Aquino.
[1] Lumen Latam is now Cirion, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider.
About Cirion:
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin Americas progress through technology. Cirion serves over 6,400 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region.
Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
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