Introducing Foundations - our open source Rust service foundation library
2024-01-24
Foundations is a foundational Rust library, designed to help scale programs for distributed, production-grade systems...
How Cloudflare’s AI WAF proactively detected the Ivanti Connect Secure critical zero-day vulnerability
2024-01-23
The issuance of Emergency Rules by Cloudflare on January 17, 2024, helped give customers a big advantage in dealing with these threats...
Q4 2023 Internet disruption summary
2024-01-22
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the fourth quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q4
2024-01-09
Welcome to the sixteenth edition of Cloudflare’s DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers DDoS trends and key findings for the fourth and final quarter of the year 2023, complete with a review of major trends throughout the year...
Introducing Cloudflare’s 2024 API security and management report
2024-01-09
Today, we’re releasing our 2024 API Security and Management Report. This blog introduces and is a supplement to the API Security and Management Report for 2024 where we detail exactly how we’re protecting our customers, and what it means for the future of API security...
An overview of Cloudflare's logging pipeline
2024-01-08
In this post, we’re going to go over what that looks like, how we achieve high availability, and how we meet our Service Level Objectives (SLOs) while shipping close to a million log lines per second...
Privacy Pass: upgrading to the latest protocol version
2024-01-04
In this post, we explore the latest changes to Privacy Pass protocol. We are also excited to introduce a public implementation of the latest IETF draft of the Privacy Pass protocol — including a set of open-source templates that can be used to implement Privacy Pass Origins, Issuers, and Attesters...
Have your data and hide it too: an introduction to differential privacy
2023-12-22
Providing software and web services that deliver value for users often requires measuring user behavior. In this blog we discuss emerging cryptographic and statistical techniques that enable collecting such measurements without violating user privacy...
A return to US net neutrality rules?
2023-12-21
Cloudflare has long supported the open Internet principles that are behind net neutrality, and we still do today. That’s why we filed comments with the FCC expressing our support for these principles...
Don’t let the cyber grinch ruin your winter break: Project Cybersafe Schools protects small school districts in the US
2023-12-20
In August of this year, as part of the White House Back to School Safely: K-12 Cybersecurity Summit, Cloudflare announced Project Cybersafe Schools to help support eligible K-12 public school districts with a package of Zero Trust cybersecurity solutions — for free, and with no time limit...
Australia’s cybersecurity strategy is here and Cloudflare is all in
2023-12-18
In support of the Australian Cyber Security Strategy 2023-2030 (The Strategy), released on November 22, 2023, we want to share how we can help empower Australian organizations and individuals to become more secure...
Integrating Turnstile with the Cloudflare WAF to challenge fetch requests
2023-12-18
By editing or creating a new Turnstile widget with “Pre-Clearance” enabled, Cloudflare customers can now use Turnstile to issue a challenge when a page’s HTML loads, and enforce that all valid responses have a valid Turnstile token...
Using DNS to estimate the worldwide state of IPv6 adoption
2023-12-14
In the last decade, IPv6 adoption on the client side went from under 1% to somewhere in the high 30 to low 40 percent, depending on who’s reporting, but there’s also the other end of the equation: the server side...
From Google to Generative AI: ranking top Internet services in 2023
2023-12-12
Building on similar reports we’ve done over the past two years, we have compiled a ranking of the top Internet properties of 2023...
Cloudflare 2023 Year in Review
2023-12-12
The 2023 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fourth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level......
A look inside the Cloudflare ML Ops platform
2023-12-07
To help our team continue to innovate efficiently, our MLOps effort has collaborated with Cloudflare’s data scientists to implement the following best practices...
How we used OpenBMC to support AI inference on GPUs around the world
2023-12-06
This is what Cloudflare has been able to do so far with OpenBMC with respect to our GPU-equipped servers...
Latest copyright decision in Germany rejects blocking through global DNS resolvers
2023-12-05
A recent decision from the Higher Regional Court of Cologne in Germany marked important progress for Cloudflare and the Internet in pushing back against misguided attempts to address online copyright infringement through the DNS system...
Cloudflare Gen 12 Server: bigger, better, cooler in a 2U1N form factor
2023-12-01
Cloudflare Gen 12 Compute servers are moving to 2U1N form factor to optimize the thermal design to accommodate both high-power CPUs (>350W) and GPUs effectively while maintaining performance and reliability...
Cyber Week: analyzing Internet traffic and e-commerce trends
2023-11-28
How significant are Cyber Week days on the Internet? Is it a global phenomenon? Does e-commerce interest peak on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and are attacks increasing during this time? These questions are important to retailers and stakeholders around the world. ...