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| A lion dance was held at the opening ceremony for CenturyLink's new security operations centre in Singapore. |
CenturyLink has opened its 8th global security operations centre (SOC) in Singapore, offering customers in Asia Pacific greater ability to predict, protect and respond to internal and external threats with CenturyLink’s network-based security solutions.
“CenturyLink has had an operations centre in Asia Pacific since the early 2000s to serve our customers’ growing demands in scaling their digital businesses. With the launch of our SOC in Singapore today, enterprises are better protected through our comprehensive methodology of people, process and technology to tackle an ever-evolving threat landscape and help secure their digital futures,” said Francis Thangasamy, VP, product management in Asia Pacific for CenturyLink.
“As part of CenturyLink’s commitment to be a trusted IT advisor to our customers, we recognise the importance of continuous development, training and growing our cybersecurity talent pool to defend their digital businesses against tomorrow’s cyberthreats. Our security professionals will continue to focus on detecting and responding to cyber and insider threats for our customers in the region and globally.”
According to Securing Connectivity Across the Asia/Pacific for a Trusted Digital Future, an IDC vendor spotlight sponsored by CenturyLink, November 2018, more than 80% of organisations in Asia Pacific do not have security proficiency or an optimal security programme. IDC also predicts that by 2020, 30% of security spending will be with vendors offering integrated security solutions that are powered by the latest advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation and analytics.
“Asia Pacific organisations are facing an ever-evolving threat landscape, where the complexity of networks is changing, with businesses leveraging hybrid cloud environments to digitally transform. Organisations need to consider a ‘build vs buy’ model to sustain the necessary level of threat intelligence and advanced analytics capabilities along with the skills to interpret and act on findings. They will also need to undertake a holistic, enterprise-wide security posture that is proactive and predictive to combat threats and secure their business data,” said Simon Piff, VP for IT security practice business at IDC Asia Pacific.
CenturyLink’s global SOCs provide customers with follow-the-sun support and always-on management of the company’s suite of advanced threat prevention and detection solutions, including custom threat intelligence derived from its global IP network, cloud-based firewalls, distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation and security log monitoring.
- CenturyLink’s global SOCs monitor over 114 billion NetFlow sessions per day, responding to and mitigating about 120 DDoS attacks per day.
- CenturyLink tracks over 5,000 command and control servers (C2s) per day and proactively removes more than 35 C2s per month to help protect the global Internet.
According to the CenturyLink 2018 Threat Report, China, South Korea and Vietnam are at the top of the list of channels and targets of malicious cyber activity in Asia Pacific. China, South Korea and Japan were the top three countries ranked by prevalence of C2s in the same report.
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“CenturyLink has had an operations centre in Asia Pacific since the early 2000s to serve our customers’ growing demands in scaling their digital businesses. With the launch of our SOC in Singapore today, enterprises are better protected through our comprehensive methodology of people, process and technology to tackle an ever-evolving threat landscape and help secure their digital futures,” said Francis Thangasamy, VP, product management in Asia Pacific for CenturyLink.
“As part of CenturyLink’s commitment to be a trusted IT advisor to our customers, we recognise the importance of continuous development, training and growing our cybersecurity talent pool to defend their digital businesses against tomorrow’s cyberthreats. Our security professionals will continue to focus on detecting and responding to cyber and insider threats for our customers in the region and globally.”
According to Securing Connectivity Across the Asia/Pacific for a Trusted Digital Future, an IDC vendor spotlight sponsored by CenturyLink, November 2018, more than 80% of organisations in Asia Pacific do not have security proficiency or an optimal security programme. IDC also predicts that by 2020, 30% of security spending will be with vendors offering integrated security solutions that are powered by the latest advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation and analytics.
“Asia Pacific organisations are facing an ever-evolving threat landscape, where the complexity of networks is changing, with businesses leveraging hybrid cloud environments to digitally transform. Organisations need to consider a ‘build vs buy’ model to sustain the necessary level of threat intelligence and advanced analytics capabilities along with the skills to interpret and act on findings. They will also need to undertake a holistic, enterprise-wide security posture that is proactive and predictive to combat threats and secure their business data,” said Simon Piff, VP for IT security practice business at IDC Asia Pacific.
CenturyLink’s global SOCs provide customers with follow-the-sun support and always-on management of the company’s suite of advanced threat prevention and detection solutions, including custom threat intelligence derived from its global IP network, cloud-based firewalls, distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation and security log monitoring.
- CenturyLink’s global SOCs monitor over 114 billion NetFlow sessions per day, responding to and mitigating about 120 DDoS attacks per day.
- CenturyLink tracks over 5,000 command and control servers (C2s) per day and proactively removes more than 35 C2s per month to help protect the global Internet.
According to the CenturyLink 2018 Threat Report, China, South Korea and Vietnam are at the top of the list of channels and targets of malicious cyber activity in Asia Pacific. China, South Korea and Japan were the top three countries ranked by prevalence of C2s in the same report.
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Browse the interactive CenturyLink 2018 Threat Report (PDF)
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