My internship: Brotli compression using a reduced dictionary
2020-11-11
Using the brotli dictionary to improve compression of web content without sacrificing performance....
Tech Leaders on the Future of Remote Work
2020-11-11
Dozens of top leaders and thinkers from the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for a series of fireside chats commemorating Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Here are some of the highlights....
What is an Integrated Email Security solution? And is it right for your organization?
2020-11-10
Gartner has named Area 1 Security as a Representative Vendor for IESS. We believe, Area 1 Security, as an IESS, provides the core functionalities of a SEG, but has the advantage of being very quick and easy to deploy, without requiring changes to the email flow at the gateway....
Bienvenue Cloudflare France! Why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in France
2020-11-10
I am incredibly excited to announce that I have joined Cloudflare as its Head of France to help build a better Internet and expand the company’s growing customer base in France. This is an important milestone for Cloudflare as we continue to grow our presence in Europe. ...
Phishing campaign threatens job security, drops Bazar and Buer Malware
2020-11-09
A phishing campaign is threatening targets with false claims of employment termination. The goal of the attacker is to intimidate employees into clicking on a link that will ultimately lead to Bazar or Buer malware infections by way of Trickbot....
Announcing Spectrum DDoS Analytics and DDoS Insights & Trends
2020-11-07
We’re excited to announce the expansion of the Network Analytics dashboard to Spectrum customers on the Enterprise plan. Additionally, this announcement introduces two major dashboard improvements for easier reporting and investigation....
The Internet is Getting Safer: Fall 2020 RPKI Update
2020-11-06
The cap of two hundred thousand routing cryptographic records was recently passed. We thought it was time for an update on a major year for RPKI....
ClickHouse Capacity Estimation Framework
2020-11-05
We use ClickHouse widely at Cloudflare. It helps us with our internal analytics workload, bot management, customer dashboards, and many other systems. ...
Looking Ahead: Five Opportunities on The Horizon According to Tech Leaders
2020-11-03
Dozens of top leaders and thinkers from the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for a series of fireside chats commemorating Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Here are some of the highlights....
The Serverlist: Serverless Wasm AI, Building Automatic Platform Optimizations, and more!
2020-10-31
Check out our twenty-first edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....
Unwrap the SERVFAIL
2020-10-30
We recently released a new version of Cloudflare Resolver, which adds a piece of information called “Extended DNS Errors” (EDE) along with the response code under certain circumstances. This will be helpful in tracing DNS resolution errors and figure out what went wrong behind the scenes....
Introducing Bot Analytics
2020-10-29
Nearly 40% of Internet traffic is automated. Today, Cloudflare is taking its Bot Management product to new heights with the release of Bot Analytics....
Diving into /proc/[pid]/mem
2020-10-27
A few months ago, after reading about Cloudflare doubling its intern class, I quickly dusted off my CV and applied for an internship. Long story short: now, a couple of months later, I found myself staring at Linux kernel code and adding a pretty cool feature to gVisor....
Road to gRPC
2020-10-26
Cloudflare launched support for gRPC during our 2020 Birthday Week. In this post, we’ll do a deep-dive into the technical details of how we implemented support....
A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet
2020-10-22
QUIC and HTTP/3 are open standards that have been under development in the IETF for almost exactly 4 years. On October 21, 2020, following two rounds of Working Group Last Call, draft 32 of the family of documents that describe QUIC and HTTP/3 were put into IETF Last Call....
A Virtual Product Management Internship Experience
2020-10-22
In July 2020, I joined Cloudflare as a Product Management Intern on the DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) team to enhance the benefits that Network Analytics brings to our customers. This is my experience....
The Cloudflare Radar 2020 Elections Dashboard
2020-10-21
We thought it was important to provide a view into how overall traffic to campaign and elections sites is trending as well as a view into the cyberattacks we're observing. To that end, today we're sharing data from our internal monitoring systems publicly through Cloudflare Radar....
Bot Attack trends for Jan-Jul 2020
2020-10-20
Automated traffic makes up almost 40% of total Internet traffic. Let’s take a look at how bots behaved over 2020 so far....
With 14 days to go, we haven’t nailed the basics: election security risks from expired domains
2020-10-20
Failure for any organization to properly register their domains poses several key risks. For example, anyone who might register an election-sensitive domain would be able to assume the identity of elections officials and send phishing emails....
How a Customer's Trust in Cloudflare Led to a Big Win against Bots
2020-10-19
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about how a customer trusted Cloudflare to help them fight bots and improve their customer experience....
