Introducing the Cloudflare Geo Key Manager
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
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, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach....
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
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. ...
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
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....
September 10, 2017 5:04 PM
Since March 30, 2017, Cloudflare has been providing DNS Anycast service as additional F-Root instances under contract with ISC (the F-Root operator). F-Root is a single IPv4 address plus a single IPv6 address which both ISC and Cloudflare announce to the global Internet as a shared Anycast. This document reviews how F-Root has performed since that date in March 2017. The DNS root servers are an important utility provided to all clients on the Internet for free - all F root instances includin...
July 21, 2017 8:01 AM
Cloudflare runs 3,588 containers, making up 1,264 apps and services that all need to be able to find and discover each other in order to communicate -- a problem solved with service discovery....
July 04, 2017 10:32 AM
In a recent blog post, my colleague Marek talked about some SSDP-based DDoS activity we'd been seeing recently. In that blog post he used a tool called mmhistogram to output an ASCII histogram....
June 28, 2017 3:45 PM
Last month we shared statistics on some popular reflection attacks. Back then the average SSDP attack size was ~12 Gbps....
June 07, 2017 12:47 PM
Back in April we announced Rate Limiting of requests for every Cloudflare customer. Being able to rate limit at the edge of the network has many advantages: it’s easier for customers to set up and operate, their origin servers are not bothered by excessive traffic or layer 7 atta...
May 25, 2017 5:30 PM
At Cloudflare we believe in being good to the Internet and good to our customers. By moving on from the legacy world of IPv4-only to the modern-day world where IPv4 and IPv6 are treated equally, we believe we are doing exactly that....
May 24, 2017 6:16 PM
Recently Akamai published an article about CLDAP reflection attacks. This got us thinking. We saw attacks from Connectionless LDAP servers back in November 2016 but totally ignored them because our systems were automatically dropping the attack traffic without any impact....
May 18, 2017 1:00 PM
The Internet is inherently unreliable, a collection of networks connected to each other with fiber optics, copper, microwaves and trust....
May 14, 2017 3:00 PM
Cloudflare's Enterprise customers have been using our Load Balancing service since March, and it has been helping them avoid website downtime caused by unreliable hosting providers, Internet outages, or servers. ...
May 05, 2017 2:55 PM
Have you noticed something new in your Cloudflare analytics dashboard this morning? You can now see detailed DNS analytics for your domains on Cloudflare....