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October 2024

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Introducing Access for Infrastructure: SSH

Oct 23, 2024 By Sharon Goldberg In Cloudflare
BastionZero joined Cloudflare in May 2024. We are thrilled to announce Access for Infrastructure as BastionZero’s native integration into our SASE platform, Cloudflare One. Access for Infrastructure will enable organizations to apply Zero Trust controls in front of their servers, databases, network devices, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Today, we’re announcing short-lived SSH access as the first available feature.
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Training a million models per day to save customers of all sizes from DDoS attacks

Oct 23, 2024 By Nick Wood In Cloudflare
Our always-on DDoS protection runs inside every server across our global network. It constantly analyzes incoming traffic, looking for signals associated with previously identified DDoS attacks. We dynamically create fingerprints to flag malicious traffic, which is dropped when detected in high enough volume — so it never reaches its destination — keeping customer websites online. In many cases, flagging bad traffic can be straightforward.
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Protect against identity-based attacks by sharing Cloudflare user risk scores with Okta

Oct 15, 2024 By Noelle Kagan In Cloudflare
Cloudflare One, our secure access service edge (SASE) platform, is introducing a new integration with Okta, the identity and access management (IAM) vendor, to share risk indicators in real-time and simplify how organizations can dynamically manage their security posture in response to changes across their environments.
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What are patent trolls? How Cloudflare defeating Sable made patents public!

Oct 11, 2024 By Cloudflare In Cloudflare
In this week’s episode, we look at patent trolls, what they are, and why a recent Cloudflare win also helps the industry to innovate. Host João Tomé is joined by Emily Terrell, Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation, and Patrick Nemeroff, Senior Director, Legal Counsel. We discuss how Cloudflare was sued by the patent troll Sable but emerged victorious. Sable was ordered to pay Cloudflare $225,000 and grant a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio.
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Cloudflare acquires Kivera to add simple, preventive cloud security to Cloudflare One

Oct 8, 2024 By Noelle Kagan In Cloudflare
We’re excited to announce that Kivera, a cloud security, data protection, and compliance company, has joined Cloudflare. This acquisition extends our SASE portfolio to incorporate inline cloud app controls, empowering Cloudflare One customers with preventative security controls for all their cloud services.
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Enhance your website's security with Cloudflare's free security.txt generator

Oct 6, 2024 By Alexandra Moraru In Cloudflare
Meet Georgia, a diligent website administrator at a growing e-commerce company. Every day, Georgia juggles multiple tasks, from managing server uptime to ensuring customer data security. One morning, Georgia receives an email from a security researcher who discovered a potential vulnerability on the website. The researcher struggled to find the right contact information, leading to delays in reporting the issue.
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How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack

Oct 2, 2024 By Manish Arora In Cloudflare
Since early September, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks. Cloudflare’s defenses mitigated over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month, with many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3 terabits per second (Tbps). The largest attack peaked 3.8 Tbps — the largest ever disclosed publicly by any organization. Detection and mitigation was fully autonomous.
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Birthday Week 2024 Recap: AI Audit, Speed Brain, Developer Tools and more!

Oct 2, 2024 By Cloudflare In Cloudflare
In this week’s episode, we recap our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week, and its many announcements. Host João Tomé is joined by Brendan Irvine-Broque (Group Product Manager) and Kelly May Johnston (Director, Product Management). We dive into some of the key announcements of the week, including the AI audit and major improvements in security, performance, and AI/ML support, such as enhanced threat detection and analytics, faster navigation with Speed Brain, and expanded free tools for all users.
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