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Hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks skyrocket: Cloudflare's 2025 Q2 DDoS threat report

Welcome to the 22nd edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Published quarterly, this report offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare network. In this edition, we focus on the second quarter of 2025. June was the busiest month for DDoS attacks in 2025 Q2, accounting for nearly 38% of all observed activity.

Developing Security Leaders

Most security leaders don't suddenly become "strategic" the moment they get a new title. It's a skill developed through failures, feedback, and learning how to align your work with the business's goals. On this episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast, Olivier Busolini opens up about his own missteps, trying to contribute from inside the tech silo, then outside of it, and still feeling ineffective?

The Future of Content and AI: Pay per Crawl and What's Next

In this episode, host João Tomé is joined by Will Allen, Cloudflare’s VP of Product Management, to discuss Pay-Per-Crawl and our new permission-based model for AI bots. These updates, launched on Content Independence Day, aim to reshape how AI models access and reward content, shifting from opt-out to opt-in. They explore how AI Overviews are changing the old “traffic for content” model, and how Cloudflare is helping creators take control through tools like AI Audit. Plus: the future of trustworthy content, bot authentication, and the rise of a fairer content economy.

Data Control at the Edge Cloudflare & FedRAMP in Action

This exclusive webinar discovers how Cloudflare helps agencies stay secure and compliant. Cloudflare Data Localization Suite allows customers to leverage the resiliency, security and performance of the Cloudflare global anycast network while maintaining appropriate data residency controls. This session explores Cloudflare’s unique approach to FedRAMP compliance. Learn how FedRAMP authorized services from Cloudflare can help agencies and contractors enhance, secure and monitor both public and private applications whether hosted on-prem or in the cloud.

Securing Public Institutions with Cloudflare One

Florida’s colleges, universities, and public agencies are under pressure to manage growing cyber threats while supporting hybrid access and stretched resources. Join Tom Coffey, Senior SASE Specialist at Cloudflare, to learn how organizations like yours are adopting Zero Trust and SASE with Cloudflare One to simplify security, reduce costs, and improve performance.

How Cybersecurity Leaders Start Being Enablers

Too many cybersecurity teams stay in the shadows, only stepping in for audits or after an incident. But if you want to influence funding decisions, share strategy, and get buy-in when it matters, you have to be in the room long before that. In the latest episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast, Olivier Busolini of Mashreq shares how he moved from being "the guy in the second line of defense" to a trusted partner in the business.

Introducing simple and secure egress policies by hostname in Cloudflare's SASE platform

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!

How to Build a Security Team That Actually Enables the Business with Olivier Busolini

In this episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast with Cloudflare, host Mark Dembo is joined by Olivier Busolini, Group Head of Information Security at Mashreq, to explore how cybersecurity leadership has transformed from a purely technical function to a strategic business partnership.