CenturyLink Security Rating

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Industry Telecommunications
Footprint 56.08M IPs
Followers Monitored by 648 companies
Headquarters Monroe, US
Year founded 1968
Employees 25K

Lumen Technologies (formerly known as CenturyLink) is a company that provides networking, edge cloud, and cybersecurity services. It offers unified communications and collaboration, adaptive network security, threat discovery and response, ransomware assessment, internet on-demand, network storage, implementation management, and other solutions. The company serves the energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, technology, and retail industries.

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