{"id":839997,"date":"2025-04-22T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/lumen-empowers-businesses-with-the-threat-intelligence-safeguarding-its-global-network\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:57:28","slug":"lumen-empowers-businesses-with-the-threat-intelligence-safeguarding-its-global-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/lumen-empowers-businesses-with-the-threat-intelligence-safeguarding-its-global-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumen Empowers Businesses with the Threat Intelligence Safeguarding Its Global Network"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lumen Defender Plus, powered by Black Lotus Labs intelligence, stops threats before they reach business networks \u2013 delivering measurable results for companies like Apex DataCom<\/p>\n

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\n <\/span>, April 22, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — The need for smarter, faster, and more automated defenses has never been greater. In 2024, 86% of enterprises reported a year-over-year increase in cyber threats<\/a>. Lumen Technologies<\/a> (NYSE: LUMN) today announced it is putting the strength of its global threat intelligence that safeguards its own infrastructure into the hands of enterprise businesses. Lumen DefenderSM<\/sup> Plus, built entirely on Lumen’s network and powered by the advanced threat intelligence capabilities of Black Lotus Labs, is designed to automatically block internet-based cyber threats at the network edge \u2013 including bots, malware, spam, phishing, Command and Control (C2) and proxy activity before they ever reach a business’s environment.<\/p>\n

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“With Lumen Defender Plus, we’re giving businesses something they’ve never had before\u2014direct access to the same real-time intelligence and automated protection we use to secure Lumen’s network, one of the world’s largest and most connected,” said Martin Nystrom<\/span>, Lumen vice president of Black Lotus Labs and product security. “We’re combining Black Lotus Lab’s visibility into the global threat landscape with our AI engine to stop real-world threats before they ever reach a business. This proactive security solution adds a layer of visibility, control, and protection most businesses don’t have today.”<\/p>\n

\n Apex DataCom<\/a>, an IT consulting firm specializing in cloud applications and business advisory services, recently piloted Lumen Defender Plus and reported strong results\u2014a 70-80% decrease in security alerts, plus the immediate blocking of hundreds of brute force attacks conducted by a nation state. Analytics from Lumen Defender Plus revealed that over a seven-day period, hundreds of thousands of threats – including botnets, malware, and ransomware – were blocked on Apex DataCom’s 10-gigabit circuits. By automatically mitigating these threats at the network edge, Lumen Defender Plus is freeing up Apex DataCom’s internal IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives.<\/p>\n

Lumen Defender Plus is integrated with Lumen\u00ae Internet On-Demand (IoD) service and is automatically enabled without manual configurations or extra equipment. Once activated, it immediately begins blocking malicious IP addresses using a real-time stream of threat intelligence from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, which tracks over 2.3 million threats per day and has a proven history of uncovering and disrupting multi-year nation-state campaigns. Unlike traditional firewalls or endpoint-based solutions, Lumen Defender Plus operates at the network edge, minimizing the burden on security teams and improving operational efficiency.<\/p>\n

Businesses can quickly see threats and act on those using a customizable web portal that includes:<\/p>\n