June 18, 2019 1:00PM
Trust on the Internet is underpinned by the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI grants servers the ability to securely serve websites by issuing digital certificates, providing the foundation for encrypted and authentic communication....
June 13, 2019 1:00PM
Yesterday, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of Project Galileo. More than 550 websites are part of this program, and they have something in common: each and every one of them has been subject to attacks in the last month....
June 02, 2019 9:04PM
If you want to start an intense conversation in the halls of Cloudflare, try describing us as a "CDN". CDNs don't generally provide you with Load Balancing, they don't allow you to deploy Serverless Applications, and they certainly don't get installed onto your phone....
March 20, 2019 3:01PM
Today, we're announcing Spectrum for UDP. Spectrum for UDP works the same as Spectrum for TCP: Spectrum sits between your clients and your origin. Incoming connections are proxied through, whilst applying our DDoS protection and IP Firewall rules....
March 20, 2019 1:00PM
HTTP requests typically originate with a client, and end at a web server that processes the request and returns some response. Such requests may pass through multiple proxies before they arrive at the requested resource....
March 18, 2019 5:47PM
The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them....
March 15, 2019 5:01PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it was special....
February 06, 2019 4:00PM
Does page speed affect revenue? It does, and to a large degree. Learn why Cloudflare is the most effective when it comes to boosting site speed and performance....
February 05, 2019 4:00PM
Cloudflare seeks to help its end customers use whichever public and private clouds best suit their needs. Towards that goal, we have been working to make sure our solutions work well with various public cloud providers including Microsoft’s Azure platform....
December 14, 2018 1:00PM
DNS records are hard. Many people, even the technically competent, don’t bother to learn more than the basics. Let Cloudflare Apps manage them for you....
November 29, 2018 6:45PM
With Cloudflare Workers, it is possible to send traffic logs to arbitrary locations. In this post we are going to discuss an example Worker implementation on how to achieve this. So if you are building or maintaining your own traffic logging/analytics environment, read on....
November 28, 2018 7:59PM
Efficient packet dropping is a key part of Cloudflare’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigations. In this post, we introduce a new tool in our packet dropping arsenal: L4Drop....
November 16, 2018 11:00AM
You can now place applications that require SSH connections, like your source control repository, behind Cloudflare Access. We’re excited to release that same feature so that your team can also destroy your own VPN....
November 12, 2018 11:27AM
It's been a while since we last wrote about Layer 3/4 DDoS attacks on this blog. This is a good news - we've been quietly handling the daily onslaught of DDoS attacks. Since our last write-up, a handful of interesting L3/4 attacks have happened. Let's review them....
October 25, 2018 1:00PM
We’re excited to announce the full integration of Cloudflare Spectrum with Load Balancing. Combining Spectrum with Load Balancing enables traffic management of TCP connections utilising the same battle tested Load Balancer our customers already use for billions of HTTP requests every day....
