Cloudflare

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2009
  |  By Alex Bocharov
We made our WAF Machine Learning models 5.5x faster, reducing execution time by approximately 82%, from 1519 to 275 microseconds! Read on to find out how we achieved this remarkable improvement. WAF Attack Score is Cloudflare's machine learning (ML)-powered layer built on top of our Web Application Firewall (WAF). Its goal is to complement the WAF and detect attack bypasses that we haven't encountered before.
  |  By Cloudflare
New Cloudflare study reveals the extent that UK businesses are at risk from imminent cyberattacks over the next 12 months.
  |  By Michael Tremante
Over the last twelve months, the Internet security landscape has changed dramatically. Geopolitical uncertainty, coupled with an active 2024 voting season in many countries across the world, has led to a substantial increase in malicious traffic activity across the Internet. In this report, we take a look at Cloudflare’s perspective on Internet application security. This report is the fourth edition of our Application Security Report and is an official update to our Q2 2023 report.
  |  By Sharon Goldberg
The MD5 cryptographic hash function was first broken in 2004, when researchers demonstrated the first MD5 collision, namely two different messages X1 and X2 where MD5(X1) = MD5 (X2). Over the years, attacks on MD5 have only continued to improve, getting faster and more effective against real protocols. But despite continuous advancements in cryptography, MD5 has lurked in network protocols for years, and is still playing a critical role in some protocols even today.
  |  By Omer Yoachimik
Welcome to the 18th edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare network. This edition focuses on the second quarter of 2024. With a 280 terabit per second network located across over 230 cities worldwide, serving 19% of all websites, Cloudflare holds a unique vantage point that enables us to provide valuable insights and trends to the broader Internet community.
  |  By Alex Bocharov
To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier.
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Insights reveal record-breaking time-to-exploit of new zero-day vulnerability, largest DDoS attack in the history of the Internet, and increasing supply chain threats.
  |  By Cloudflare
New Cloudflare study reveals that 64% of business leaders expect a cybersecurity incident in the next 12 months, but only 29% feel highly prepared to defend against them.
  |  By Matthew Prince
One of the great benefits of the Internet has been its ability to empower activists and journalists in repressive societies to organize, communicate, and simply find each other. Ten years ago today, Cloudflare launched Project Galileo, a program which today provides security services, at no cost, to more than 2,600 independent journalists and nonprofit organizations around the world supporting human rights, democracy, and local communities.
  |  By Cloudflare
Project Galileo now protects 2,600+ public interest organisations in 111 countries for free, against about 96 million DDoS attacks every day.
  |  By Cloudflare
Time, staffing, and tooling constraints can be major roadblocks to application modernization. It’s time to regain control.
  |  By Cloudflare
In this week’s episode, we go a bit technical in our segment “Let’s //Get\ Technical,” featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. We discuss AI bot and crawlers, elections and more.
  |  By Cloudflare
Cloudflare delivers consistent security and performance everywhere, and every Cloudflare data center offers single-pass traffic inspection and routing, ensuring that users all over the world are protected at the same level without sacrificing speed due to latency.
  |  By Cloudflare
Cybersecurity professionals are bracing themselves as the relentless cycle of new phishing scams, malware attacks, and AI-enabled threats make it hard to stay a step ahead. Against this background, the Department of Home Affairs is proposing to establish a Cyber Incident Review Board to protect and investigate Australian organizations that have been breached. But is this enough?
  |  By Cloudflare
In this week’s episode, we explore the realm of passwords, leaked passwords, two-factor authentication (2FA), and also AI generated captions for video. Host João Tomé is joined by Garrett Galow, Director of Product at Cloudflare, to discuss a recent blog post on how we help keep customers safe through leaked password notifications accessible via our dashboard. We also discuss the use of passwords in 2024, the importance of 2FA or multi-factor authentication like hardware keys, offer suggestions, and explore how passwords might become less common in the future.
  |  By Cloudflare
Experience a deeper understanding of AI's transformative potential! Watch our exclusive video, 'Developing in the Age of AI,' featuring profound insights shared by Cloudflare’s Vice President of Developer Relations, Ricky Robinett. Explore the dynamic convergence of cybersecurity and AI efficacy. Share your details to unlock privileged access to this video, empowering you with the profound insights that shape the technological landscape.
  |  By Cloudflare
You need to accelerate digital modernization to stay competitive, but complex tech stacks limit your modernization initiatives. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud simplifies management and new tech adoption across networks, web apps, security, and development, making it easier to embrace a wide range of digital services.
  |  By Cloudflare
In this video, we explain what a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is and how it works to improve your website’s performance. If you've ever experienced a slow website, you know how frustrating it can be for both you and your visitors. A slow website can lead to losing customers and lower rankings on search result pages. That's where a CDN comes in. A CDN improves your website's loading times by serving content from the server closest to your visitors. By caching content at various data centers, a CDN reduces the distance data must travel, leading to faster load times and lower bandwidth costs.
  |  By Cloudflare
Explore the essential role of DNS (Domain Name System) in the internet ecosystem with this detailed video. Whether you're navigating the web or managing websites, understanding DNS is vital for optimizing website loading speeds and bolstering cybersecurity.. In this video, we cover: Whether you're a beginner curious about internet infrastructure or a tech enthusiast seeking deeper insights, join us as we unravel the mechanics of DNS. This video provides invaluable knowledge to empower you in navigating the digital world effectively.
  |  By Cloudflare
In this week’s episode, we explore how Cloudflare handles application security, current trends, vulnerabilities, and future expectations. Host João Tomé is joined by Michael Tremante, Director of Product from our Application Security team. We discuss the evolution of application security and its increasing relevance today. We also go into specific use cases, covering firewall security, malware, supply chain risks, and the critical task of monitoring various vulnerabilities, including zero-day threats.
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This whitepaper discusses the many challenges that DNS providers and users face including massive cyber attacks as well as performance and reliability issues, and how Cloudflare can help resolve these challenges, ensuring business continuity.
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Strategies for preventing data breaches, shadow APIs, abuse, and other common challenges.
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Organizations are facing economic uncertainty as the outlook grows more unpredictable. This uncertainty - often exemplified by shrinking budgets - puts pressure on CIOs and technical leaders to find new paths forward.
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Learn how Cloudflare is able to stop some of the most sophisticated DDoS attacks.
  |  By Cloudflare
This whitepaper discusses the growth of large scale DDoS attacks, how these attacks target as well as leverage DNS provider infrastructures, and how Cloudflare can help protect your business against the impact of such massive attacks.
  |  By Cloudflare
Growing a startup requires delivering excellent online experiences. In this guide, we share tips to help startups create the kind of high-performing, reliable, and secure websites and applications needed to do so.

Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable.

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

The Integrated Global Cloud Network:

  • Zero Trust Services: Stop data loss, malware and phishing with the most performant Zero Trust application access and Internet browsing solution.
  • Website & App Performance: Speed up websites, apps, & APIs through our global network to optimize your content & deliver it closer to the users location.
  • Website & App Security: Protect websites & applications from bots, DDoS attacks & more. All while monitoring for suspicious activity & potential attacks.
  • Network Security & Performance: Networking solutions to connect, secure, & accelerate your networks — without the cost & complexity of managing legacy hardware.
  • Developer Platform: Deploy serverless code instantly across the globe to give it exceptional performance, reliability, & scale.
  • SASE - Cloudflare One: Zero Trust network-as-a-service platform to dynamically connect remote & on-site users to resources, with identity-based security controls.

A global network built for the cloud.