July 26, 2018 3:04 PM
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web....
July 24, 2018 5:32 PM
It's no secret that Cloudflare operates at a huge scale. Cloudflare provides security and performance to over 9 million websites all around the world, from small businesses and WordPress blogs to Fortune 500 companies. That means one in every 10 web requests goes through our network....
July 24, 2018 4:15 PM
Using a VPN breaks your workflow with logins, needs separate credentials for admins to handle, slows you when not in the office, and brings security risks that extend past mere inconvenience to users....
July 24, 2018 3:04 PM
I still remember my first foray onto the internet as a university student back in the mid 90's. It was a simpler time back then, of course; we weren't doing our personal banking or our tax returns or handling our medical records so encrypting the transport layer wasn't exactly a high priority. ...
July 14, 2018 5:13 PM
Back in April, I wrote about how it was possible to modify a router to encrypt DNS queries over TLS using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver and a GL.iNet router; the folks at GL.iNet read that blog post and decided to bake DNS-Over-TLS support into their new router using the 1.1.1.1 resolver....
July 06, 2018 1:00 PM
Internally our DDoS mitigation team is sometimes called "the packet droppers". When other teams build exciting products to do smart things with the traffic that passed through our network, we take joy in discovering novel ways of discarding it....
June 28, 2018 5:40 PM
In preparation for Chrome’s Not Secure flag, which will update the indicator to show Not Secure when a site is not accessed over https, we wanted people to be able to test whether their site would pass. ...
May 16, 2018 5:28 PM
It's no secret that Cloudflare has been a big proponent of TLS 1.3, the newest edition of the TLS protocol that improves both speed and security, since we have made it available to our customers starting in 2016. ...
May 02, 2018 3:00 PM
One of the most common feature requests we get is to allow customers to share access to their account. This has been supported at our Enterprise level of service, but is now expanding to all customers. ...
April 24, 2018 10:31 PM
Over the few last hours, a dozen news stories have broken about how an attacker attempted (and perhaps managed) to steal cryptocurrencies using a BGP leak....
April 23, 2018 7:08 PM
Today we would like to announce support for two more Identity Providers with Cloudflare Access: Centrify and OneLogin. If you are using Centrify or OneLogin as your identity provider you can now easily integrate them with Cloudflare Access....
April 17, 2018 10:11 PM
In previous blog post we discussed how we use the TPROXY iptables module to power Cloudflare Spectrum. With TPROXY we solved a major technical issue on the server side, and we thought we might find another use for it on the client side of our product....
April 12, 2018 1:01 PM
We are introducing Spectrum, which brings Cloudflare’s security and acceleration to the whole spectrum of TCP ports and protocols for our Enterprise customers. It’s DDoS protection for any box, container or VM that connects to the internet....
April 12, 2018 1:00 PM
Introducing Spectrum: a new Cloudflare feature that brings DDoS protection, load balancing, and content acceleration to any TCP-based protocol.Today we are releasing Spectrum. ...
April 09, 2018 7:20 PM
This blog post explains how you can configure an OpenWRT router to encrypt DNS traffic to Cloudflare Resolver using DNS-over-TLS....
April 06, 2018 2:00 PM
Serving content from a Rust web server running on a Raspberry Pi from your home to the world, with a Cloudflare Argo Tunnels....
April 05, 2018 1:00 PM
Argo Tunnel lets you deploy services that are hidden on the internet. In other words, Argo Tunnel is like a P.O. box: someone can send you packets without knowing your real address. Only Cloudflare can see the server and communicate with it....
April 03, 2018 4:00 PM
How great would it be to have a dashboard with a holistic view of threats, malicious server activity, vulnerabilities, sensitive data access levels and a daily scan of resources across all of your applications and services? Now you can. ...
March 27, 2018 12:00 PM
Compression is often considered an essential tool when reducing the bandwidth usage of internet services. The impact that the use of such compression schemes can have on security, however, has often been overlooked. ...
March 24, 2018 2:59 AM
The success of Certificate Transparency rests on the existence of a robust ecosystem of logs and log operators. ...
