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            <title><![CDATA[Empowering our partners with the new Tenant Platform dashboard]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.cloudflare.com/tenant-platform-ui-ga/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:41:23 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ We are proud to announce the general availability of our first dashboard for our Tenant Platform, providing an intuitive user interface for agencies and partners to manage their client accounts ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p><i>Itching to get started? Apply to the </i><a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-self-serve-program-open-beta/"><i>Self Serve Partner Beta</i></a><i> or </i><a href="https://portal.cloudflarepartners.com/"><i>Enterprise partner programs</i></a><i> now.</i></p><p>Cloudflare has always worked closely with partners to help build a better Internet. From our earliest Hosting Partners, to our latest <a href="/cloudflare-one-partner-program/">Cloudflare One program</a> and <a href="/cloudflare-one-authorized-services-delivery-partner-track/">Authorized Service Delivery partners</a>, we are dedicated to supporting our peers across the networking and cybersecurity ecosystem to <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/network-services/solutions/enterprise-network-security/">secure Enterprise networks</a>, mission-critical applications, and remote employees. As part of that commitment, we are proud to announce the general availability of our first dashboard for our Tenant Platform, providing an intuitive user interface for agencies and partners to manage their client accounts.</p>
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      <h2>Tenant Platform introduction</h2>
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    <p>The <a href="/announcing-the-new-cloudflare-partner-platform/">first version</a> of the <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/tenant/">Tenant Platform</a> was created in 2018 to support one of our large integration partners, <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudflare">IBM Cloud</a>. They needed a secure way to independently provision accounts for their clients, spin up custom subscriptions, invite service users within each new account, and begin to configure the service. This platform, although API only, worked extremely well with our OEM and integration partners that were including our solution within their current platform to support their customers.</p>
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            </figure><p><a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/tenant/structure/"><i>Multi-Tenant Structure</i></a></p>
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      <h2>User interface overview</h2>
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    <p>As Cloudflare has expanded the type of partners and customers it works with, it became clear that a user interface would be required to support agency, service and system integration partners that needed the same administrative controls as our integration partners, but available within our core <a href="http://dash.cloudflare.com">dashboard</a>. This allows scaled account management to be available to our partners as well as large Enterprise customers managing multiple business units.</p>
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      <h3>Accessing the platform</h3>
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            </figure><p>All of our current partner administrators are now able to access the Tenants link on the left hand navigation within the Cloudflare dashboard. This will place them within the Tenant Overview page.</p>
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      <h3>Tenant Overview</h3>
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            </figure><p>Within the Tenant Overview, we surface our documentation and some basic information about the tenant system and the program level of the partner.</p>
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      <h4>Account insights</h4>
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    <p>After speaking with our partners, the ability to quickly assess the health of accounts and underlying zones was paramount. To this end, we prioritized surfacing account-level security and performance insights for all child accounts within the Tenant system. This allows partner support teams to immediately dive into a specific Account that may be experiencing an issue or misconfiguration.</p>
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            </figure><p><a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/security-center/security-insights/">Security Insights</a> allow you to quickly confirm that an application is effectively onboarded.</p>
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            </figure><p><a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/account-and-zone-analytics/zone-analytics/">Traffic Insights</a> surface error rates across all child accounts. </p>
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      <h3>Managed accounts</h3>
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    <p>An additional improvement is the creation of a Managed Account section under the Tenant category. This section allows you to quickly search for and get a summary of accounts in active management by your Tenant system. This table will include cumulative spend of the account, product activation reviews, and the most recent action from the account audit log. The goal is to provide a single page to understand the health of all of your managed accounts, and jump into the specific account when necessary.  </p>
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            </figure><p>Managed Accounts provide a summary of all child accounts.</p>
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      <h2>Just getting started</h2>
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    <p>Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. We know we cannot do that alone, and we treasure all of our partners that have worked with us to accomplish that mission across our technical, channel and alliance relationships. Throughout 2023 and 2024, we look to continue to grow our Tenant Platform across a few key areas. We have a robust roadmap to continue to mature our API and UI for tenant user management, centralized subscription management, billing and analytics rollups, and other foundational improvements. Our goal is to make Cloudflare the vendor of choice to seamlessly integrate with our partner’s product and service offerings for CDN, WAF, DDoS, Zero Trust, Workers and more.</p>
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      <h3>Would you like to learn more?</h3>
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    <ul><li><p>Apply to become an Enterprise Partner on our <a href="http://portal.cloudflarepartners.com">Partner Portal</a></p></li><li><p>Sign Up for the <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-self-serve-program-open-beta/">Self-Serve Partner Program</a></p></li><li><p>Reach out to <a>partners@cloudflare.com</a></p></li></ul>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cloudflare Zero Trust for managed service providers]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.cloudflare.com/gateway-managed-service-provider/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ Adding new features to Cloudflare Zero Trust for Managed Service Providers using Gateway DNS. ]]></description>
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            </figure><p>As part of CIO week, we are announcing a new integration between our DNS Filtering solution and our Partner Tenant platform that supports parent-child policy requirements for our partner ecosystem and our direct customers. Our <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/tenant/">Tenant platform</a>, launched in <a href="/announcing-the-new-cloudflare-partner-platform/">2019</a>, has allowed Cloudflare partners to easily integrate Cloudflare solutions across millions of customer accounts. <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/gateway/">Cloudflare Gateway</a>, introduced in <a href="/protect-your-team-with-cloudflare-gateway/">2020</a>, has grown from protecting personal networks to <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/fortune-500-telecommunications-provider/">Fortune 500</a> enterprises in just a few short years. With the integration between these two solutions, we can now help Managed Service Providers (MSPs) support large, multi-tenant deployments with parent-child policy configurations and account-level policy overrides that seamlessly <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/threat-defense/">protect global employees from threats online</a>.</p>
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      <h2>Why work with Managed Service Providers?</h2>
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    <p>Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are a critical part of the <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/cio/">toolkit</a> of many CIOs. In the age of disruptive technology, hybrid work, and shifting business models, outsourcing IT and <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/soc-as-a-service/">security operations</a> can be a fundamental decision that drives strategic goals and ensures business success across organizations of all sizes. An MSP is a third-party company that remotely manages a customer's information technology (IT) infrastructure and end-user systems. MSPs promise deep technical knowledge, threat insights, and tenured expertise across a variety of security solutions to protect from <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/ransomware/how-to-prevent-ransomware/">ransomware</a>, malware, and other online threats. The decision to partner with an MSP can allow internal teams to focus on more strategic initiatives while providing access to easily deployable, competitively priced IT and security solutions. Cloudflare has been making it easier for our customers to work with MSPs to <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/insights-roadmap-zerotrust/">deploy and manage a complete Zero Trust transformation</a>.</p><p>One decision criteria for selecting an appropriate MSP is the provider’s ability to keep the partner’s best technology, security and cost interests in mind. An MSP should be leveraging innovative and lower cost security solutions whenever possible to drive the best value to your organization. Out of date technology can quickly incur higher implementation and maintenance costs compared to more modern and purpose-built solutions given the broader attack surface brought about by hybrid work. In a developing space like <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/glossary/what-is-zero-trust/">Zero Trust</a>, an effective MSP should be able to support vendors that can be deployed globally, managed at scale, and effectively enforce global corporate policy across business units. Cloudflare has worked with many MSPs, some of which we will highlight today, that <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/access-management/how-to-implement-zero-trust/">implement and manage Zero Trust security policies</a> cost-effectively at scale.</p><p>The MSPs we are highlighting have started to deploy Cloudflare Gateway DNS Filtering to complement their portfolio as part of a Zero Trust <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/access-management/what-is-access-control/">access control strategy</a>. DNS filtering provides quick time-to-value for organizations seeking protection from ransomware, malware, phishing, and other Internet threats. DNS filtering is the process of using the <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-dns/">Domain Name System</a> to block malicious websites and prevent users from reaching harmful or inappropriate content on the Internet. This ensures that company data remains secure and allows companies to have control over what their employees can access on company-managed networks and devices.</p><p>Filtering policies are often set by the Organization with consultation from the service provider. In some cases, these policies also need to be managed independently at the account or business unit level by either the MSP or the customer. This means it is very common for a parent-child relationship to be required to balance the deployment of corporate level rules from customization across devices, office locations, or business units. This structure is vital for MSPs that are deploying access policies across millions of devices and accounts.</p>
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      <h2>Better together: Zero Trust ❤️ Tenant Platform</h2>
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    <p>To make it easier for MSPs to manage millions of accounts with appropriate access controls and policy management, we integrated Cloudflare Gateway with our existing Tenant platform with a new feature that provides parent-child configurations. This allows MSP partners to create and manage accounts, set global corporate security policies, and allow appropriate management or overrides at the individual business unit or team level.</p>
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            <img src="https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/zkvhlag99gkb/4xsI2eVC17cv93aRq4zwoO/3f1810292d6182496e7c557b2c56dc51/image1-39.png" />
            
            </figure><p>The Tenant platform allows MSPs ability to create millions of end customer accounts at their discretion to support their specific onboarding and configurations. This also ensures proper separation of ownership between customers and allows end customers to access the Cloudflare dashboard directly, if required.</p><p>Each account created is a separate container of subscribed resources (zero trust policies, zones, workers, etc.) for each of the MSPs end customers. Customer administrators can be invited to each account as necessary for self-service management, while the MSP retains control of the capabilities enabled for each account.</p><p>With MSPs now able to set up and manage accounts at scale, we’ll explore how the integration with Cloudflare Gateway lets them manage scaled DNS filtering policies for these accounts.</p>
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      <h2>Tiered Zero Trust accounts</h2>
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    <p>With individual accounts for each MSP end customer in place, MSPs can either fully manage the deployment or provide a self-service portal backed by Cloudflare configuration APIs. Supporting a configuration portal also means you would never want your end users to block access to this domain, so the MSP can add a hidden policy to all of its end customer accounts when they onboard which would be a simple one time API call. Although issues start to arise anytime they need to push an update to said policy, this now means they have to update the policy once for each and every MSP end customer and for some MSPs that can mean over 1 million API calls.</p><p>To help turn this into a single API call, we introduced the concept of a top level account aka parent account. This parent account allows MSPs to set global policies which are applied to all DNS queries before the subsequent MSP end customer policies aka child account policies. This structure helps ensure MSPs can set their own global policies for all of their child accounts while each child account can further filter their DNS queries to meet their needs without impacting any other child account.</p>
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            </figure><p>This extends further than just policies as well, each child account can create their own custom block page, <a href="/bring-your-certificates-cloudflare-gateway/">upload their own certificates</a> to display these block pages, and set up their own DNS endpoints (IPv4, IPv6, DoH, and DoT) via Gateway locations. Also, because these are the exact same as non-MSP Gateway accounts, there aren’t any lower limits when it comes to the default limits on the number policies, locations, or lists per parent or child account.</p>
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      <h2>Managed Service Provider integrations</h2>
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    <p>To help bring this to life, below are real-world examples of how Cloudflare customers are using this new managed service provider feature to help protect their organizations.</p>
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      <h3>US federal government</h3>
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    <p>The US federal government requires many of the same services to support a protective DNS service for their 100+ civilian agencies, and they often outsource many of their IT and security operations to service providers like Accenture Federal Services (AFS).</p><p><a href="/helping-keep-governments-safe-and-secure/">In 2022</a>, Cloudflare and AFS were selected by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop a joint solution to help the federal government defend itself against cyberattacks. The solution consists of Cloudflare’s protective DNS resolver which will filter DNS queries from offices and locations of the federal government and stream events directly to Accenture’s platform to provide unified administration and log storage.</p><p>Accenture Federal Services is providing a central interface to each department that allows them to adjust their DNS filtering policies. This interface works with Cloudflare’s Tenant platform and Gateway client APIs to provide a seamless customer experience for government employees managing their security policies using our new parent-child configurations. CISA, as the parent account, can set their own global policies, while allowing agencies, child accounts, to bypass select global policies, and set their own default block pages.</p><p>In conjunction with our parent-child structure we provided a few improvements to our DNS location matching and filtering defaults. Currently, all Gateway accounts can purchase a dedicated IPv4 resolver IP address(es) and these are great for situations where a customer doesn’t have a static source IP address or wants their own IPv4 address to host the solution.</p><p>For CISA, they wanted not only a dedicated IPv4 address but to assign that same address from their parent account to their child accounts. This would allow them to have their own default IPv4 addresses for all agencies easing the burden of onboarding. Next they also want the ability to fail closed, which means if a DNS query did not match any location (which must have a source IPv4 address/network configured) it would be dropped. This allows CISA to ensure only configured IPv4 networks had access to their protective services. Lasty, we didn’t have to address this with IPv6, DoH, and DoT DNS endpoints as those are custom with each and every DNS location created.</p>
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      <h3>Malwarebytes</h3>
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    <p><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/">Malwarebytes</a>, a global leader in real-time cyber protection, recently integrated with Cloudflare to provide a DNS filtering module within their Nebula platform. The Nebula platform is a cloud-hosted security operations solution that manages control of any malware or ransomware incident—from alert to fix. This new module allows Malwarebytes customers to filter on content categories and add policy rules for groups of devices. A key need was the ability to easily integrate with their current device client, provide individual account management, and provide room for future expansion across additional Zero Trust services like <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/browser-isolation/">Cloudflare Browser Isolation</a>.</p><p>Cloudflare was able to provide a comprehensive solution that was easily integrated into the Malwarebytes platform. This included using <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-devices/agentless/dns/dns-over-https/">DNS-over-HTTP (DoH)</a> to segment users across unique locations and adding a <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-devices/agentless/dns/dns-over-https/#filter-doh-requests-by-user">unique token per device</a> to properly track the device ID and apply the correct DNS policies. And lastly, the integration was completed using the Cloudflare <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/tenant/">Tenant API</a> which allowed seamless integration with their current workflow and platform. This combination of our Zero Trust services and Tenant platform let Malwarebytes quickly go to market for new segments within their business.</p><p>“It’s challenging for organizations today to manage access to malicious sites and keep their end users safe and productive. Malwarebytes’ DNS Filtering module extends our cloud-based security platform to web protection. After evaluating other Zero Trust providers it was clear to us that Cloudflare could offer the comprehensive solution IT and security teams need while providing lightning fast performance at the same time. Now, IT and security teams can block whole categories of sites, take advantage of an extensive database of pre-defined scores on known, suspicious web domains, protect core web-based applications and manage specific site restrictions, removing the headache from overseeing site access.” - <a href="https://press.malwarebytes.com/2022/06/08/malwarebytes-continues-to-expand-endpoint-protection-platform-with-dns-filtering-module%EF%BF%BC/">Mark Strassman, Chief Product Officer, Malwarebytes</a></p>
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      <h3>Large global ISP</h3>
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    <p>We’ve been working with a large global ISP recently to support DNS filtering which is a part of a larger security solution offered for families for over one million accounts in just the first year! The ISP leverages our Tenant and Gateway APIs to seamlessly integrate into their current platform and user experience with minimal engineering effort. We look forward to sharing more detail around this implementation in the coming months.</p>
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      <h2>What’s next</h2>
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    <p>As the previous stories highlight, MSPs play a key role in securing today’s diverse ecosystem of organizations, of all sizes and maturities. Companies of all sizes find themselves squaring off against the same complex threat landscape and are challenged to <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/cybersecurity-risk-management/">maintain a proper security posture and manage risk</a> with constrained resources and limited security tooling. MSPs provide the additional resources, expertise and advanced security tooling that can help reduce the risk profile for these companies. Cloudflare is committed to making it easier for MSPs to be effective in delivering <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/zero-trust/solutions/">Zero Trust solutions</a> to their customers.</p><p>Given the importance of MSPs for our customers and the continued growth of our partner network, we plan to launch quite a few features in 2023 and beyond that better support our MSP partners. First, a key item on our roadmap is the development of a refreshed tenant management dashboard for improved account and user management. Second, we want to extend our multi-tenant configurations across our entire Zero Trust solution set to make it easier for MSPs to implement secure hybrid work solutions at scale.</p><p>Lastly, to better support hierarchical access, we plan to expand the user roles and access model currently available to MSP partners to allow their teams to more easily support and manage their various accounts. Cloudflare has always prided itself on its ease of use, and our goal is to make Cloudflare the Zero Trust platform of choice for service and security providers globally.</p><p>Throughout CIO week, we’ve touched on how our partners are helping modernize the security posture for their customers to align with a world transformed by hybrid work and hybrid multi-cloud infrastructures. Ultimately, the power of Cloudflare Zero Trust comes from its existence as a composable, unified platform that draws strength from its combination of products, features, and our partner network.</p><ul><li><p>If you’d like to learn more about becoming an MSP partner, you can read more here: <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/services">https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/services</a></p></li><li><p>If you’d like to learn more about improving your security with DNS Filtering and Zero Trust, or would like to get started today, test the platform yourself with 50 free seats by <a href="https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up/teams">signing up here</a>.</p></li></ul><p></p> ]]></content:encoded>
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            <dc:creator>Ankur Aggarwal</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Dan Hollinger</dc:creator>
            <dc:creator>Teddy Solano</dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[New partner program for SMB agencies & hosting partners now in closed beta]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.cloudflare.com/self-serve-partners-beta/</link>
            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ Today, we want to reinforce our commitment to our hosting ecosystem and small business partners that leverage Cloudflare to help bring a better Internet experience to their customers. ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>A fundamental principle here at Cloudflare has always been that we want to <a href="/a-letter-from-cloudflares-founders-2020/">serve everyone</a> - from individual developers to small businesses to large corporations. In the earliest days, we provided services to hosting partners and resellers around the globe, who helped bring Cloudflare to thousands of domains with free caching and DDoS protection for shared infrastructures.</p><p>Today, we want to reinforce our commitment to our hosting ecosystem and small business partners that leverage Cloudflare to help bring a better Internet experience to their customers. We've been building a robust <a href="/announcing-the-new-cloudflare-partner-platform/">multi-tenant partner platform</a> that we will begin to open up to everyone searching for a faster, safer, and better Internet experience. This platform will come in the form of a Self Serve Partner program that will allow SMB agencies &amp; hosting partners to create accounts for all their customers under one dashboard, consolidate billing, and provide discounted plans to our partners.</p>
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      <h3>Deprecation of our legacy APIs</h3>
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    <p>To make way for the new, we first must discuss the end-of-life of some of Cloudflare’s earliest APIs. Built and launched in <a href="/api-how-to-build-cloudflare-into-your-web-app/">2011</a>, our Hosting and Optimized Partner Programs allowed our initial <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/what-is-a-cdn/">CDN</a> and DDoS solutions to expand to brand-new audiences around the globe. These APIs were essential for fueling growth in the earliest days of Cloudflare supporting reseller partners, hosting partners, and external <a href="https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042380772-Partner-Plugin-Supportability">plugins</a> that helped make implementing Cloudflare easier than ever.On November 1, 2022 - Cloudflare will be discontinuing support for our <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/docs/host-api/">Host</a> and <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/docs/reseller-api/">Reseller</a> APIs. After this date:</p><ul><li><p>Management of zones, users, and configurations via the Host or Reseller API will be disabled.</p></li><li><p>Any plugins leveraging these APIs will no longer be functional. This includes our legacy cPanel, Plesk and WHMCS plugins. We recommend partners and users begin to work directly within the <a href="http://dash.cloudflare.com">Cloudflare dashboard</a> for any future configuration management.</p></li><li><p>Any domains created by these APIs will continue to function and traffic will not be impacted after the depreciation period. Customer traffic will not be impacted during the deprecation, and we’ve been working closely with our partners to ensure these domains are transitioned to customer-management where preferred or migrated when appropriate to the new partner platform.</p></li><li><p>Any active specialized subscriptions will be mapped to our current zone plans.We are grateful for all of our earliest partners that trusted Cloudflare to increase the security and improve performance for their customer’s domains. All of our partners still leveraging our APIs should have received a communication with our deprecation schedule and next steps. And if there are any additional questions, they can be directed to <a>host_deprecation@cloudflare.com</a>.</p></li></ul>
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    <p>As our solution offering and network grew, these early APIs were not well-equipped to scale with them. Cloudflare has continued to grow its network to <a href="/new-cities-april-2022-edition/">over 275 cities</a> and expand well beyond just web performance and security. With a full portfolio of Application Services, Zero Trust Services, Developer and Network solutions, our specialized plans and APIs quickly began to limit our partners instead of empowering them. Cloudflare announced our revamped <a href="/announcing-the-new-cloudflare-partner-platform/">partner platform</a> a few years ago, and it has since been used with some of our largest integration and service partners supporting our newest <a href="/zero-trust-managed-services/">SASE and Zero Trust offerings</a>.</p>
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    <p>With the deprecation of our legacy APIs, we are opening up our Partner Platform to a broader base of partners with a Self-Serve Partner program. Working in tandem with our Self-Serve teams, we’ve been ramping up initial test partners since late last year. Now, we’re excited to announce a path forward for agencies, regional MSPs, and hosting providers that still rely on Cloudflare to help their customers experience a better, faster, and safer Internet:</p><ul><li><p><b>Multi-Tenant Account Support</b></p><ul><li><p>Partners will have the ability to create individual customer accounts and manage individual user access to each one from our dashboard or via our Tenant API.</p></li></ul></li><li><p><b>Centralized Self-Serve Billing</b></p><ul><li><p>Partners will have the ability to own self-serve billing across each account with a single billing profile, ensuring subscription management is seamless across every account.</p></li></ul></li></ul>
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      <h3>Comparing our partner programs</h3>
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    <table><tr><td><p></p></td><td><p><b>Self-Serve Partner Program</b></p></td><td><p><b>New Cloudflare One Partner Program</b></p></td><td><p><b>Enterprise Reseller &amp; Services Program</b></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Status</p></td><td><p>Closed Beta</p></td><td><p>Early Access</p></td><td><p>General Access</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tiers</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>Select Advanced Elite</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Discount</p></td><td><p>Beta Discount - 20%</p></td><td><p>25-50%</p></td><td><p>30-40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Revenue Commitment</p></td><td><p>No</p></td><td><p>No</p></td><td><p>Yes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Training &amp; Enablement</p></td><td><p>Self-Serve</p></td><td><p>Cloudflare University Specialized Training</p></td><td><p>Cloudflare University Specialized Training In-Person Training</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Partner Account Resources</p></td><td><p>No - Self Serve</p></td><td><p>Yes - Tier Dependent</p></td><td><p>Yes - Tier Dependent</p></td></tr></table>
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      <h3>Sign Up Now</h3>
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    <p>If you want to start using our partner platform, sign up for the <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-self-serve-program-open-beta/">closed beta</a>: we plan to start enabling access throughout this year. We’re looking forward to collecting feedback from each of you and learning how we can improve your end-customers experience with our global platform.</p>
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      <h3>Ain’t seen nothing yet…</h3>
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    <p>Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. We know we cannot do that alone, and we treasure all of our partners that have worked with us to accomplish that mission across our technical, channel and alliance relationships. Throughout 2022 and 2023, we look to continue to grow our Partner Platform across a few key areas to make it easier to use and seamless to integrate into your current offering across CDN, DDoS, Zero Trust, Workers and more.</p><ul><li><p>Enhanced Partner Dashboard</p></li><li><p>Expanded Zero Trust Bundles for Partners</p></li><li><p>Additional Partner Service Opportunities</p></li><li><p>Select training and other Partner-only benefits</p></li></ul>
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    <p>Become an Enterprise Partner: <a href="http://portal.cloudflarepartners.com">Partner Portal</a></p><p>Sign Up for the <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-self-serve-program-open-beta/">Self-Serve Partner Program</a></p> ]]></content:encoded>
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            <link>https://blog.cloudflare.com/empowering-our-customers-and-service-partners/</link>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ We wanted to highlight some amazing partners and our growing support and training for MSPs around the globe.  ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Last year, Cloudflare <a href="/cloudflare-partners-a-new-program-with-new-partners/">announced</a> the planned expansion of our partner program to help managed, and professional service partners efficiently engage with Cloudflare and join us in our mission to help build a better Internet. Today, we want to highlight some of those amazing partners and our growing support and training for MSPs around the globe. We want to make sure service partners have the enablement and resources they need to bring a more secure and performant Internet experience to their customers.</p><p>This partner program tier is specifically designed for professional service firms and Managed Service Providers (MSPs and MSSPs) that want to build value-added services and support Cloudflare customers. While Cloudflare is hyper-focused on building highly scalable and easy to use products, we recognize that some customers may want to engage with a professional services firm to assist them in maximizing the value of our offerings. From building Cloudflare Workers, implementing <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/performance/load-balancing-multi-cloud-hybrid-cloud/">multi-cloud load balancing</a>, or managing WAF and DDoS events, our partner training and support enables sales and technical teams to position and support the Cloudflare platform as well as enhance their services businesses.</p>
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    <p>Our training and certification is meant to help partners through each stage of Cloudflare adoption, from discovery and sale to implementation, operation and continuous optimization. The program includes hands-on education, partner support and success resources, and access to account managers and partner enablement engineers.  </p><ul><li><p><b>Accredited Sales Professional</b> - <b><i>Learn about key product features and how to identify opportunities and find the best solution for customers</i></b><i>.</i></p></li><li><p><b>Accredited Sales Engineer</b> - <b><i>Learn about Cloudflare’s technical differentiation that drives a smarter, faster and safer Internet</i></b><i>.</i></p></li><li><p><b>Accredited Configuration Engineer</b> - <b><i>Learn about implementation, best practices, and supporting Cloudflare</i></b><i>.</i></p></li><li><p><b>Accredited Services Architect</b> - <b><i>Launching in May, our Architect accreditation dives deeper into cybersecurity management, performance optimization, and migration services for Cloudflare.</i></b></p></li><li><p><b>Accredited Workers Developer</b> (<i>In Development</i>) - <b><i>Learn how to develop and deploy</i></b><i> s__erverless applications with Cloudflare Workers.</i>__</p></li></ul>
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    <p>Over the past year, the partners we’ve engaged with have found success throughout Cloudflare’s lifecycle by helping customers understand how to transform their network in their move to hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, develop serverless applications, or manage the Cloudflare platform.</p>
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    <blockquote><p><b><i>“Cloudflare is streamlining our migration from on-prem to the cloud. As we tap into various public cloud services, Cloudflare serves as our independent, unified point of control — giving us the strategic flexibility to choose the right cloud solution for the job, and the ability to easily make changes down the line.” — Dr. Isabel Wolters, Chief Technology Officer, Handelsblatt Media Group</i></b></p></blockquote>
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    <blockquote><p><b><i>"At Queue-it we pride ourselves on being the leading developer of virtual waiting room technology, providing a first-in, first-out online waiting system. By partnering with Cloudflare, we've made it easier for our joint customers to bring our solution to their applications through Cloudflare Apps and our Cloudflare Workers Connector that leverages the power of edge computing."  - Henrik Bjergegaard, VP Sales, Queue-It</i></b></p></blockquote>
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    <blockquote><p><b><i>“Opticca Security supports our clients with proven and reliable solutions to ensure business continuity and protection of your online assets. Opticca Security has grown our partnership with Cloudflare over the years to support the quick deployment, seamless integration, and trusted expertise of Cloudflare Security solutions, Cloudflare Workers, and more." -- Joey Campione, President, Opticca Security</i></b></p></blockquote>
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      <h2>Partner Showcase - Zilker Technology</h2>
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    <p>We wanted to highlight the success of one of our managed service partners who, together with Cloudflare, is delivering a more secure, more high performing and more reliable Internet experience for customers.</p><p><a href="https://ztech.io/">Zilker Technology</a> engaged Cloudflare when one of their eCommerce clients, the retail store of a major NFL team, was facing carding attacks and other malicious activity on their sites. "Our client activated their Cloudflare subscription on a Thursday, and we were live with Cloudflare in production the following Tuesday, ahead of Black Friday later that same week," says Drew Harris, Director of Managed Services for Zilker. "It was crazy fast and easy!"</p><blockquote><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carding_(fraud)">Carding</a> - also known as credit card stuffing, fraud or verification, happens when cyber criminals attempt to make small purchases with large volumes of stolen credit card numbers on one eCommerce platform.</p></blockquote><p>In addition to gaining the enhanced security and protection from Cloudflare WAF, advanced DDOS protection, and rate-limiting, Zilker replaced the client's legacy CDN with Cloudflare CDN, improving site performance and user experience. Zilker provides full-stack managed services and 24/7 support for the client, including Cloudflare monitoring and management.  </p><p>“Partnering with Cloudflare gives us peace of mind that we can deliver on customer expectations of security and performance all the time, every day. Even as new threats emerge, Cloudflare is one step ahead of the game,” says Matthew Fox, VP of Business Development.</p>
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      <h2>Just getting started</h2>
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    <p>Cloudflare is committed to making our service partners successful to ensure our customers have the best technology and expertise available to them as they accelerate and protect their critical <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/security/">applications</a>, <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/magic-transit/">infrastructure</a>, and <a href="http://teams.cloudflare.com">teams</a>. As Cloudflare grows our product set, we’ve seen increased demand for the services provided by our partners. Cloudflare is excited and grateful to work with amazing <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-self-serve-program-open-beta/">agencies</a>, professional services firms and managed security providers across the globe. The diverse Cloudflare Partner Network is essential to our mission of helping to build a better Internet, and we are dedicated to the success of our partners. We’ll continue our commitment to our customers and partners that Cloudflare will be the easiest and most rewarding solution to implement with partners.</p><p><b>More Information:</b></p><ul><li><p>Become a Partner: <a href="http://portal.cloudflarepartners.com">Partner Program Website</a></p></li><li><p>Reach out to <a>partners@cloudflare.com</a></p></li></ul><p></p> ]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cloudflare Partners: A New Program with New Partners]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-a-new-program-with-new-partners/</link>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 13:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ Many overlook a critical portion of the language in Cloudflare’s mission: “to help build a better Internet.” From the beginning, we knew a mission this bold couldn’t be done alone. ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p>Many overlook a critical portion of the language in Cloudflare’s mission: “<b>to help</b> build a better Internet.” From the beginning, we knew a mission this bold, an undertaking of this magnitude, couldn’t be done alone. We could only help. To ultimately build a better Internet, it would take a diverse and engaged ecosystem of technologies, customers, partners, and end-users. Fortunately, we’ve been able to work with amazing partners as we’ve grown, and we are eager to announce new, specific programs to grow our ecosystem with an increasingly diverse set of partners.</p><p>Today, we’re excited to announce the latest iteration of our partnership program for solutions partners. These categories encompass resellers and referral partners, OEM partners, and the new partner services program. Over the past few years, we’ve grown and learned from some <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/integrations/ibm-cloud-internet-services/">amazing</a> partnerships, and want to bring those best practices to our latest partners at scale—to help them grow their business with Cloudflare’s global network.</p>
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    <p>Every partner program out there has tiers, and Cloudflare’s program is no exception. However, our tiering was built to help our partners ramp up, accelerate and move fast. As Matt Harrell <a href="/helping-cloudflare-build-its-partnerships-worldwide/">highlighted</a>, we want the process to be as seamless as possible, to help partners find the level of engagement that works best for them‚ with world-class enablement paths and best-in-class revenue share models—built-in from the beginning.</p>
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    <p>Cloudflare offers complimentary training and enablement to all partners. From <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-self-serve-program-open-beta/">self-serve paths,</a> to partner-focused webinars, and instructor-based courses, and certification—we want to ensure our partners can learn and develop Cloudflare and product expertise, to make them as effective as possible when utilizing our massive global network.</p>
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    <p>We want our partners to grow and succeed. From self-serve resellers to our most custom integration, we want to make it frictionless to build a profitable business on Cloudflare. From our tenant API system to dedicated account teams, we’re ready to help you go-to-market with solutions that help end-customers. This includes opportunities to co-market, develop target accounts, and directly partner, to succeed with strategic accounts.</p><p>Cloudflare recognizes that, in order to help build a better Internet, we need successful partners—and our latest program is built to help partners build and grow profitable business models around Cloudflare’s solutions.</p>
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      <h3>Partner Services Program - SIs, MSSPs, MSSPs, PSOs</h3>
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    <p>For the first time, we are expanding our program to also include service providers that want to develop and grow profitable services practices around Cloudflare’s solutions.</p><p>Our customers face some of the most complex challenges on the Internet. From those challenges, we’ve already seen some amazing opportunities for service providers to create value, grow their business, and make an impact. From customers migrating to the public, hybrid or multi-cloud for the first time, to entirely re-writing applications using Cloudflare Workers®, the need for expertise has increased across our entire customer base. In early pilots, we’ve seen four major categories in building a successful service practice around Cloudflare:</p><ul><li><p><b>Network Digital Transformations -</b> Help customers migrate and <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/network-modernization/">modernize</a> their network solution. Cloudflare is the only cloud-native network to give Enterprise-grade control and visibility into on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures.</p></li><li><p><b>Serverless Architecture Development -</b> Provide serverless application development services, thought leadership, and technical consulting around leveraging Cloudflare Workers and Apps.</p></li><li><p><b>Managed Security &amp; Insights -</b> Enable CISO and IT leaders to obtain single pane of glass of reporting and policy management across all Internet-facing application with <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/solutions/">Cloudflare’s Security solutions</a>.</p></li><li><p><b>Managed Performance &amp; Reliability -</b> Keep customer’s High-Availability applications running quickly and efficiently with Cloudflare’s Global Load Balancing, Smart Routing, and Anycast DNS, which allows performance consulting, traffic analysis, and application monitoring.</p></li></ul><p>As we expand this program, we are looking for audacious service providers and system integrators that want to help us build a better Internet for our mutual customers. Cloudflare can be an essential lynchpin to simplify and accelerate digital transformations. We imagine a future where massive applications run within 10ms of 90% of the global population, and where a single-pane solution provides security, performance, and reliability for mission-critical applications—running across multiple clouds. Cloudflare needs help from amazing global integrators and service partners to help realize this future.</p><p>If you are interested in learning more about becoming a service partner and growing your business with Cloudflare, please reach out to <a>partner-services@cloudflare.com</a> or explore <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/services/">cloudflare.com/partners/services</a></p>
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      <h3>Just Getting Started</h3>
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    <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law">Metcalf’s law</a> states that a network is only as powerful as the amount of nodes within the network. And within the global Cloudflare network, we want as many partner nodes as possible—from agencies to systems integrators, managed security providers, Enterprise resellers, and OEMs. A diverse ecosystem of partners is essential to our mission of helping to build a better Internet, together. We are dedicated to the success of our partners, and we will continue to iterate and develop our programs to make sure our partners can grow and develop on Cloudflare’s global network. Our commitment moving forward is that Cloudflare will be the easiest and most valuable solution for channel partners to sell and support globally.</p><hr /><p>More Information:</p><ul><li><p><a href="http://cloudflare.com/partners">Partner Program Website</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://cloudflare.com/partners/services">Partner Services Website</a></p></li><li><p><a href="/announcing-the-new-cloudflare-partner-platform/">Announcing the new Cloudflare Partner Platform</a></p></li><li><p>A New Program with New Partners (you are here)</p></li><li><p><a href="/helping-cloudflare-build-its-partnerships-worldwide/">Building Partnerships Worldwide</a></p></li></ul><p></p> ]]></content:encoded>
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            <dc:creator>Dan Hollinger</dc:creator>
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