On the Leading Edge - Cloudflare named a leader in The Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Solutions
December 07, 2017 8:44 PM
Cloudflare has been recognized as a leader in the “Forrester WaveTM: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q4 2017.”...
CAA of the Wild: Supporting a New Standard
December 07, 2017 2:00 PM
One thing we take pride in at Cloudflare is embracing new protocols and standards that help make the Internet faster and safer. Sometimes this means that we’ll launch support for experimental features or standards still under active development, as we did with TLS 1.3....
Make SSL boring again
December 06, 2017 2:00 PM
It may (or may not!) come as surprise, but a few months ago we migrated Cloudflare’s edge SSL connection termination stack to use BoringSSL: Google's crypto and SSL implementation that started as a fork of OpenSSL....
The New DDoS Landscape
November 23, 2017 3:28 AM
News outlets and blogs will frequently compare DDoS attacks by the volume of traffic that a victim receives. Surely this makes some sense, right? The greater the volume of traffic a victim receives, the harder to mitigate an attack - right? ...
Thwarting the Tactics of the Equifax Attackers
November 13, 2017 4:09 PM
We are now 3 months on from one of the biggest, most significant data breaches in history, but has it redefined people's awareness on security?...
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November 10, 2017 11:06 AM
On the dangers of Intel's frequency scaling
While I was writing the post comparing the new Qualcomm server chip, Centriq, to our current stock of Intel Skylake-based Xeons, I noticed a disturbing phenomena....
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November 09, 2017 4:05 PM
Privacy Pass - “The Math”
During a recent internship at Cloudflare, I had the chance to help integrate support for improving the accessibility of websites that are protected by the Cloudflare edge network. ...
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November 08, 2017 8:03 PM
ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison
One of the nicer perks I have here at Cloudflare is access to the latest hardware, long before it even reaches the market. Until recently I mostly played with Intel hardware. ...
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November 06, 2017 6:07 AM
LavaRand in Production: The Nitty-Gritty Technical Details
As some of you may know, there's a wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office that we use for cryptography. In this post, we’re going to explore how that works in technical detail. ...
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November 06, 2017 5:54 AM
Randomness 101: LavaRand in Production
As some of you may know, there's a wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office that we use for cryptography. In this post, we’re going to explore how that works. ...
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October 20, 2017 4:23 PM
Performing & Preventing SSL Stripping: A Plain-English Primer
Over the past few days we learned about a new attack that posed a serious weakness in the encryption protocol used to secure all modern Wi-Fi networks....
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October 06, 2017 2:00 PM
A Fast, Secure Migration to Google Cloud Platform using Cloudflare
Looking to host your property in the cloud or migrate to a new cloud provider while keeping data secure? In this webinar, we discuss how companies should approach security, during and after migration....
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October 01, 2017 10:00 AM
A New Cybersecurity Strategy for Europe
October is European Cybersecurity Month, an annual advocacy campaign to raise awareness of cyber risks among citizens and businesses, and to share best practices in cybersecurity....
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September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Geo Key Manager: How It Works
Today we announced Geo Key Manager, a feature that gives customers control over where their private keys are stored with Cloudflare. This builds on a previous Cloudflare innovation called Keyless SSL and a novel cryptographic access control mechanism....
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September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing the Cloudflare Geo Key Manager
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
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September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible
When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, ...
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September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
Meet Gatebot - a bot that allows us to sleep
In the past, we’ve spoken about how Cloudflare is architected to sustain the largest DDoS attacks. During traffic surges we spread the traffic across a very large number of edge servers. ...
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September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
Unmetered Mitigation: DDoS Protection Without Limits
This is the week of Cloudflare's seventh birthday. It's become a tradition for us to announce a series of products each day of this week and bring major new benefits to our customers. We're beginning with one I'm especially proud of: Unmetered Mitigation....
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September 14, 2017 6:25 PM
Disruptive Cryptography: Post-Quantum & Machine Learning With Encrypted Data
Shay Gueron, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Israel, and Raluca Ada Popa, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley ...
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September 14, 2017 5:08 PM
The View from Washington: The State of Cybersecurity
Avril Haines, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Obama Administration...
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