Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Find out why building resilience now is critical and what Cloudflare is doing to ensure customers are protected.

In this end-of-year episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Omer Yoachimik, Senior Product Manager for DDoS Protection at Cloudflare, to break down the realities of the 2025 DDoS threat landscape — and what’s coming next.

Cybercriminals don't care about borders. So why do we have 12 different regulatory frameworks for the same threat? Olivier Busolini, Group Head of Information Security at Mashreq Bank, voiced the frustration every global CISO feels: "In every country, I have 12 countries at Mashreq. In every country, there is a slightly different or sometimes vastly different requirement that I have to abide to.".

In this special Year in Review episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by David Belson to break down the Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review. Together, they explore what Cloudflare’s global network reveals about how the Internet evolved over the past year — from the rapid rise of AI crawlers and agent traffic, to record-breaking DDoS attacks, the spread of post-quantum encryption, and the growing impact of government-directed shutdowns and outages.