Tiered Cache Smart Topology
2021-02-18
We are introducing a new topology for Tiered Cache that reduces origin load by increasing cache hit ratio....
2020 U.S. Election: Cybersecurity Analysis
2021-02-09
As we protect many entities in the election space, we have the ability to identify, learn and analyze attack trends targeted at these sites that provide authoritative election information....
Who won Super Bowl LV? A look at Internet traffic during the game
2021-02-08
The obvious answer is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but the less obvious answer comes from asking “which Super Bowl advertiser got the biggest Internet bump?”. This blog aims to answer that question....
Congratulations to Cloudflare’s 2020 Partner Award Winners
2021-02-08
We are privileged to share Cloudflare’s inaugural set of Partner Awards. These Awards recognize our partner companies and representatives worldwide who stood out this past year for their investments in acquiring technical expertise in our offerings...
The effect of switching to TCMalloc on RocksDB memory use
2021-02-03
Memory allocator is an important part of the system, so choosing the right allocator for a workload can give huge benefits. Here is a story of how we decreased service memory usage by almost three times....
Cloudflare Named a ‘Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality’
2021-01-29
Cloudflare receives a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index....
Starting a new job in the middle of a pandemic
2021-01-29
When 2020 started, it was not in my plans to change jobs and start working at a new company, completely remote, without ever meeting my colleagues in person or visiting the office. However, that is exactly what happened, and I am so glad I did....
Data Privacy Day 2021 - Looking ahead at the always on, always secure, always private Internet
2021-01-28
2020 was a big year for data protection, so what does 2021 have in store? On this Data Privacy Day, we talk about the key role data localization and encryption technologies will play in data protection this year....
Automating data center expansions with Airflow
2021-01-27
How we automated data center expansions and cut by 90% the amount of time our team spent on tedious operational work....
Count yourself in for a vaccine phish: new phishing campaign exploits concern over COVID-19 vaccine availability
2021-01-27
Area 1 has uncovered a coronavirus vaccine-themed campaign spoofing the CDC. The attack, which originally bypassed Office 365’s email security, uses a number of techniques to bypass normal anti-spoofing and email authentication methods....
How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020
2021-01-25
Although tumultuous and unexpected, 2020 did not come without its silver linings, one being Cloudflare’s remote summer internship program....
Introducing Project Fair Shot: Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Sites Can Keep Up With Demand
2021-01-22
Project Fair Shot provides Cloudflare's new Waiting Room service for free for any government, municipality, hospital, pharmacy, or other organization responsible for distributing COVID-19 vaccines....
Cloudflare Waiting Room
2021-01-22
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Waiting Room! It will be first available to select customers through a new program called Project Fair Shot, with general availability in our Business and Enterprise plans in the near future. ...
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q4 2020
2021-01-22
DDoS attack trends in the final quarter of 2020 defied norms in many ways. For the first time in 2020, Cloudflare observed an increase in the number of large DDoS attacks. Specifically, the number of attacks over 500Mbps and 50K pps saw a massive uptick. ...
Uganda's January 13, 2021 Internet Shut Down
2021-01-15
Two days ago, through its communications regulator, Uganda's government ordered the "Suspension Of The Operation Of Internet Gateways" hours before the country's general election. This action was confirmed by several users and journalists who got access to the letter sent to Internet providers. ...
KEMTLS: Post-quantum TLS without signatures
2021-01-15
The TLS 1.3 protocol has been around for quite some time, but it will be broken once quantum computers arrive. What can we do? In this blog post, we will examine a technique for achieving full post-quantum security for TLS 1.3 in the face of quantum computers: KEMTLS....
Holistic web protection: industry recognition for a prolific 2020
2021-01-14
Today we’re excited to announce that Frost & Sullivan has named Cloudflare the Innovation Leader in their Frost Radar™: Global Holistic Web Protection Market Report....
Soar: Simulation for Observability, reliAbility, and secuRity
2021-01-14
In this article, we will discuss one of the techniques we use to fight such software complexity: simulations. Simulations are basically system tests that run with synthesized customer traffic and applications....
A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
2021-01-13
At Cloudflare, we have been exploring alternative ways to resolve queries to responses that align with these attributes. We are proud to announce a new resolver for the Distributed Web, where IPFS content indexed by the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) can be accessed....
Cloudflare Radar's 2020 Year In Review
2021-01-12
Today we are launching a dedicated Year In Review page with interactive maps and charts where you can explore what changed on the Internet in 2020. Year In Review is part of Cloudflare Radar. ...