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# Lumen Adaptive Network Security Reviews
**Vendor:** Lumen Technologies  
**Category:** [Web Application Firewalls (WAF)](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-application-firewall-waf)  
**Average Rating:** 3.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 4
## About Lumen Adaptive Network Security
CenturyLink® Adaptive Network Security is a network-based layer of protection against an increasingly complicated threat landscape. The CenturyLink network acts as a sensor, giving you the visibility and control needed to monitor, block and report attempts to break into your network. Delivered as a combination of service chained functions in the cloud, CenturyLink Adaptive Network Security can quickly adapt to new threats without requiring huge customer investments and new expertise. By moving protection physically closer to the origins of threats, we’re able to neutralize threats more efficiently and effectively. Adaptive Network Security is carrier-agnostic, allowing customers to protect internet connections with CenturyLink, hybrid environments, and third-party networks. • Next-generation firewall • Intrusion detection • Anti-virus • DDoS Mitigation Services • Web content filtering / URL Filtering • Application awareness and control • Anti-malware (sandboxing) • Data-loss protection (DLP) • Secure Remote Access • Logging and reporting • 24/7 Security Operations Center support • Centralized policy management and visibility in the customer portal




## Lumen Adaptive Network Security Reviews
  ### 1. Entire process was quick and easy.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Bhadresh P. | Managing Director BluesNet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2019

**Describe the project or task Lumen Adaptive Network Security helped with:**

Needed to enable DDoS for a public facing web application.

**What do you like best about Lumen Adaptive Network Security?**

The ability to engage the right resource from identifying the correct products, to contracting and then execution and turn up.  The entire process was quick and simple.

**What do you dislike about Lumen Adaptive Network Security?**

Setting up access to the user portal took more time than expected.

**Recommendations to others considering Lumen Adaptive Network Security:**

Know clearly what you need.  CenturyLink is good at finding a solution that works for you.

**What problems is Lumen Adaptive Network Security solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Protecting our multiple internet gateways with DDoS as another layer of protection to an important public facing application.


## Lumen Adaptive Network Security Discussions
  - [Is the solution carrier agnostic or does one have to subscribe to CenturyLink network services to be able to subscribe to CenturyLink security solutions?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/carrier-agnostic) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [Do you offer fully managed and maintained security options?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/management-and-support) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [Is CenturyLink Adaptive Network solutions a cloud based solution only?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/are-hybrid-configurations-supported) - 1 comment, 1 upvote

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## Lumen Adaptive Network Security Features
**Analysis**
- Logging and Reporting
- Issue Tracking
- Security Monitoring

**Controls**
- Application-Layer Controls 
- Traffic Controls
- Network Controls

**Functionality**
- API / Integrations
- Extensibility
- Bot Traffic

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Summarization

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