Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

While selling technology or services to the U.S. Federal Government offers a tremendous opportunity, it also involves navigating complex requirements—especially in the area of cybersecurity. Federal agencies handle sensitive data and demand the highest levels of security assurance. This is where the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) comes in, acting as the crucial gatekeeper for cloud services used by the government.

Legacy DLP tools are blind to how data moves in today’s cloud-first world—leaving gaps attackers exploit. From shadow IT and SaaS sprawl to insider threats and misused personal devices, outdated solutions miss the subtle, high-risk behaviors that matter most. True protection requires context-aware visibility, behavioral insight, and data lineage that follows sensitive information everywhere it goes—not just where it started.

Industry compliance frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS have become the go-to benchmarks for cybersecurity. But here's the hard truth: meeting compliance standards doesn't guarantee your data is secure. While these frameworks set essential guardrails, they often fail to address fast-evolving cyber threats that target businesses every day. For modern enterprises, staying secure requires going beyond checkbox compliance.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized Security Operations Centers (SOCs), automating threat triage and response. But not every AI is equipped to handle today’s evolving cyber threats. Many SOC platforms still rely on static, pre-trained models designed for yesterday’s attack patterns, leaving modern organizations vulnerable.

Rolling out network policies in a live Kubernetes cluster can feel like swapping wings mid-flight—one typo or overly broad rule and critical traffic is grounded. Calico’s Staged Network Policies remove the turbulence by letting you deploy policies in staged mode, so you can observe their impact before enforcing anything.

NIST Special Publication 800-53 is a cybersecurity and privacy framework developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It provides a standardized set of security controls for federal information systems, covering everything from access control and incident response to system monitoring and supply chain risk management.

Regardless of size or industry, all companies are exposed to potential cyber threats. Digitalization has brought countless benefits to today’s world, but as technology has evolved, so have the strategies used by cybercriminals to access and compromise company data and operations. Implementing computer network security has become a must. In recent years, cyberattacks have increased exponentially, posing a serious risk to organizational security.

Cloudflare’s SASE platform is on a mission to strengthen our platform-wide support for hostname- and domain-based policies. This mission is being driven by enthusiastic demands from our customers, and boosted along the way by several interesting engineering challenges. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the first milestone of this mission, which we recently released in open beta: egress policies by hostname, domain, content category, and application. Let’s dive right in!

Threat detection and response is the dynamic, ongoing process of monitoring, detecting, investigating, responding to, and remediating cyber threats.

The Australian Essential Eight is a cybersecurity framework that helps organisations protect their systems against common cyber threats. Although compliance isn’t mandatory for non-government entities, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) strongly encourages organisations to implement it due to its broad coverage. ‍ Depending on your organisation’s size and tech environment, implementing the Essential Eight can require a significant investment.