Protecting your APIs from abuse and data exfiltration
2021-03-24
API Shield is growing with new functionalities: Schema Validation generally available, Managed IP List, more controls to manage certificates, and Data Loss Prevention....
Browser Isolation for teams of all sizes
2021-03-23
Protecting endpoints from browser-born zero-day attacks and malware with remote browser isolation is now easy for teams of any size....
New device security partnerships for Cloudflare One
2021-03-23
Cloudflare launches new integrations with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and VMware Carbon Black. Cloudflare for Teams customers can now restrict access to their applications based on security signals from their devices....
Announcing antivirus in Cloudflare Gateway
2021-03-23
We’re announcing support for malware detection and prevention directly from the Cloudflare edge, giving Gateway users an additional line of defense against security threats....
Anatomy of a Targeted Ransomware Attack
2021-03-23
Imagine your most critical systems suddenly stop operating. And then someone demands a ransom to get your systems working again. Or someone launches a DDoS against you and demands a ransom to make it stop. That’s the world of ransomware and ransom DDoS....
Annual March Hackness: The Opener — What a Difference a Year Makes in the World of Phishing Attacks
2021-03-22
Area 1 has been doing our own Phishing brackets over the past five years. We took a hiatus in 2020 (as did the NCAA), so today, we proudly introduce the 5th Annual March Hackness: The Phishing Tournament....
Magic WAN & Magic Firewall: secure network connectivity as a service
2021-03-22
Magic WAN provides secure, performant connectivity and routing for your entire corporate network, reducing cost and operational complexity....
Announcing Network On-ramp Partners for Cloudflare One
2021-03-22
We know the promise of replacing MPLS links with a global, secure, performant and observable network is going to transform the corporate network and the industry itself. ...
Welcome to Cloudflare Security Week 2021!
2021-03-21
Today kicks off Cloudflare's 2021 Security Week. Like all innovation weeks at Cloudflare, we'll be announcing a dizzying number of new products, opening products that have been in beta to general availability....
Moving k8s communication to gRPC
2021-03-20
How we use gRPC in combination with Kubernetes to improve the performance and usability of internal APIs....
Random Employee Chats at Cloudflare
2021-03-20
We developed the Random Employee Chats application internally, with the goal of recreating the pre-pandemic informal interactions. Here's how we moved from a shared spreadsheet to Cloudflare Workers to automate the entire process....
Cloudflare and WordPress.com partner to Help Build a Better Internet
2021-03-19
Today we’re excited to announce a number of initiatives, starting with the integration of Cloudflare’s privacy-first web analytics into WordPress.com. This integration gives WordPress.com publishers choice in how they collect usage data and derive insights about their visitors. ...
Third Time’s the Cache, No More
2021-03-19
Up until now, we wouldn’t cache requests with query strings until we saw them three times. We trace that behavior back to 2010, examine why we might have needed it, and show ourselves why we don’t need it anymore....
Sophisticated Microsoft Spoof Targets Financial Departments
2021-03-18
A sophisticated Microsoft Office 365 credential harvesting campaign targets financial departments at companies across multiple industries, as well as newly-appointed CEOs and executive assistants....
A deep-dive into Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection
2021-03-18
Introducing our autonomous DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection system, globally deployed to all of Cloudflare’s 200+ data centers, and is actively protecting all our customers against DDoS attacks across layers 3 to 7 (in the OSI model) without requiring any human intervention....
The Teams Dashboard: The Design Story
2021-03-18
Here is the story of how we took Cloudflare for Teams from initial concepts, to an MVP, to now a comprehensive security platform that secures networks, users, devices, and applications....
Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report
2021-03-16
We explored almost 200 websites with the activated Automatic Platform Optimization feature in Chrome User Experience Report data. Automatic Platform Optimization consistently demonstrated better aggregate performance among sites we analyzed in TTFB, First Paint, FCP, and LCP metrics....
Enhancing privacy-focused Web Analytics to better meet your metrics needs
2021-03-15
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of three of the most requested features: adding multiple websites to an account, supporting Single-page Applications (SPA) as well as showing Core Web Vitals in Web Analytics....
Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform
2021-03-12
Anomaly Detection uses an algorithm called Histogram-Based Outlier Scoring (HBOS) to detect anomalous traffic in a scalable way. While HBOS is less precise than algorithms like kNN when it comes to local outliers, it is able to score global outliers quickly (in linear time)....
ARMs Race: Ampere Altra takes on the AWS Graviton2
2021-03-11
A comparison between the Ampere Altra and the AWS Graviton2, the two ARM Neoverse N1-based processors....
