Introducing Private Network Discovery
Rest easy knowing exactly who and what is being accessed within your private network. Introducing Private Network Discovery
Verify Apple devices with no installed software
Security teams that rely on Cloudflare Access can verify a user’s Apple device before they access a sensitive application — no additional software required
Infinitely extensible Access policies
Starting today, we’re excited that Access policies can consider anything before allowing a user access to an application. And by anything, we really do mean absolutely anything.
How Cloudflare One solves your observability problems
Today, we’re excited to announce Cloudflare One Observability. Cloudflare One Observability will help customers work across Cloudflare One applications to troubleshoot network connectivity, security policies, and performance issues to ensure a consistent experience for employees everywhere
Next generation intrusion detection: an update on Cloudflare’s IDS capabilities
Cloudflare’s IDS capabilities operate across all of your network traffic - any IP port or protocol — whether it flows to your IPs that we advertise on your behalf, IPs we lease to you, or soon, traffic within your private network.
Introducing Cloudforce One: our new threat operations and research team
Meet our new threat operations and research team: Cloudforce One. While this team will publish research, that’s not its reason for being. Its primary objective: track and disrupt threat actors
Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers
How to replace your email gateway with Cloudflare Area 1
Traditional SEG architectures were built for the email environments of yesterday. Learn how to seamlessly transition to cloud-native, preemptive email security
Launching In-Line Data Loss Prevention
In-line Data Loss Prevention is launching in the Cloudflare platform. Customers will be able to scan traffic to identify and protect sensitive data
Bring your own license and threat feeds to use with Cloudflare One
Today, we are announcing new integrations that enable our customers to integrate third-party threat intel data with the rich threat intelligence from Cloudflare One products — all within the Cloudflare dashboard
Introducing browser isolation for email links to stop modern phishing threats
As part of our exciting journey to integrate Area 1 into our broader Zero Trust suite, Cloudflare Gateway customers can soon enable Remote Browser Isolation for email links. With Email Link Isolation, gain an unmatched level of protection from sophisticated multi-channel email-based attacks
Welcome to Cloudflare One Week
Zero Trust can let your organization do more, let your organization do it better, and all this can come with cost savings.
Zero Trust, SASE and SSE: foundational concepts for your next-generation network
If you’ve been thinking about Zero Trust or SASE, Cloudflare One Week will demonstrate why Cloudflare One is one of the most complete SASE offerings in the market, with some of the best performance, and why it will only continue to improve
Cloudflare Zaraz launches new privacy features in response to French CNIL standards
Last week, the French National Data Protection Authority, CNIL, published guidelines for a GDPR-compliant way of loading Google Analytics. Today, Zaraz is launching a new set of features to help our customers use Google Analytics and similar tools, while meeting those strict standards
Cloudflare mitigates 26 million request per second DDoS attack
Last week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record
Exam time means Internet disruptions in Syria, Sudan and Algeria
As they have done over the past several years, Syria and Sudan are implementing multi-hour nationwide Internet shutdowns. Algeria has also taken a similar approach in the past, but this year appears to be implementing more targeted website/app blocking
Cloudflare is redefining employee well-being in Japan
Cloudflare Japan is making a few important changes to our employee benefits
AAE-1 & SMW5 cable cuts impact millions of users across multiple countries
On June 7, the Africa-Asia-Europe-1 (AAE-1) and SEA-ME-WE-5 (SMW-5) submarine cables suffered cable cuts, impactingInternet connectivity for millions of Internet users across multiple countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia
A new portal for Project Galileo participants
To provide Galileo participants with one place to access resources, configuration tips, product explainers, and more, we built the Cloudflare Social Impact Projects Portal
How Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee had an impact on the Internet
The UK's Internet traffic was clearly impacted with less traffic than usual during this weekend's celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. We also show impact from Canada to New Zealand and the royals and news websites
In Ukraine and beyond, what it takes to keep vulnerable groups online
As we celebrate the eighth anniversary of Project Galileo, we want to provide a view into the type of cyber attacks experienced by organizations protected under the project
Private Access Tokens: eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs with open standards
Today we’re announcing Private Access Tokens, a completely invisible, private way to validate that real users are visiting your site
Let’s celebrate the 8th anniversary of Project Galileo!
We started Project Galileo in 2014 with the simple idea that organizations that work in vulnerable yet essential areas of human rights and democracy building should not be taken down because of cyber
HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends
HTTP/3 is now RFC 9114. We explore Cloudflare's view of how it is being used
Cloudflare observations of Confluence zero day (CVE-2022-26134)
UTC Atlassian released a Security Advisory relating to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center products.
Cloudflare customers are protected from the Atlassian Confluence CVE-2022-26134
On June 02, 2022 Atlassian released a security advisory for their Confluence Server and Data Center applications, highlighting a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability.
Platform Week wrap-up
Recently, during Platform Week, we made a number of announcements expanding what’s possible with the Developer Platform. Let’s take a look at some of these and what this enables you to build
“Much more than just writing.” How I got started as a content designer
Great content on an interface “just works”; it disappears into a delightful user experience while leading happy users to success, whatever it is they’re trying to get done with a given product
We rebuilt Cloudflare's developer documentation - here's what we learned
In this blog post, we’ll cover the history of Cloudflare’s developer docs, why we made this recent transition, and why we continue to dogfood Cloudflare’s products as we develop applications internally
Cloudflare’s approach to handling BMC vulnerabilities
Cloudflare’s approach to handling firmware vulnerabilities and how we keep our internal data protected
How we treat content as a product
Learn how the Product Content Experience team treats developer documentation and in-product content like a product
How we improved DNS record build speed by more than 4,000x
How we redesigned our DNS pipeline to significantly improve DNS propagation speed across all zones.
Dig through SERVFAILs with EDE
Now we’re happy to announce we will return more error code types and include additional helpful information to further improve your debugging experience.
Cloudflare Middle East & Turkey: a path to growth
I am excited to announce that I have joined Cloudflare as Managing Director for the Middle East and Turkey (MET) region
Cloudflare achieves key cloud computing certifications — and there’s more to come
Cloudflare now has a second major international privacy certification, as well as C5 attestation — and we’re not done yet.
Wendy Komadina: No one excited me more than Cloudflare, so I joined.
When I considered joining Cloudflare, I recall consistently reading the message around “Helping to Build a Better Internet”. At first those words didn’t connect with me, but they sounded like an important mission.
Eurovision 2022, the Internet effect version
The 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, had two semi-finals (May 10 and 12) and a final (May 14), all of them with highlights, including Ukraine’s victory. The Internet was impacted in more than one way, from whole countries to the fan and official broadcasters sites, but also video platforms.
Monitoring our monitoring: how we validate our Prometheus alert rules
Pint is a tool we developed to validate our Prometheus alerting rules and ensure they are always working
Internship Experience: Software Development Intern
Back in December 2021, I joined Cloudflare as a Software Development Intern on the Partnerships team to help improve the experience that Partners have when using the platform
Integrating Network Analytics Logs with your SIEM dashboard
We’re excited to announce the availability of Network Analytics Logs for maximum visibility into L3/4 traffic and DDoS attacks
Debugging Hardware Performance on Gen X Servers
In Cloudflare’s global network, every server runs the whole software stack. Therefore, it's critical that every server performs to its maximum potential capacity
Announcing our Spring Developer Challenge
After many announcements from Platform Week, we’re thrilled to make one more: our Spring Developer Challenge!
Network performance update: Platform Week
We’re sharing updated performance metrics on our Workers platform. We’ve done an extensive benchmark of Cloudflare Workers vs Fastly’s Compute@Edge.
How Ramadan shows up in Internet trends
What happens to the Internet traffic in countries who observe Ramadan? Depending on the country, we see clear shifts and changing patterns in Internet use, particularly before dawn and after sunset.
Proof of Stake and our next experiments in web3
Cloudflare is going to participate in the research and development of the core infrastructure that helps keep Ethereum secure, fast, as well as energy efficient for everyone
Public access for our Ethereum and IPFS gateways now available
Today we are excited to announce that our Ethereum and IPFS gateways are publicly available to all Cloudflare customers for the first time
Serving Cloudflare Pages sites to the IPFS network
Today, we're announcing we're bridging the two. We will make it possible for our customers to serve their sites on the IPFS network
Gaining visibility in IPFS systems
We've developed the IPFS Gateway monitor, an observability tool that runs various IPFS scenarios on a given gateway endpoint.
Part 1: Rethinking Cache Purge, Fast and Scalable Global Cache Invalidation
This is Part 1 of what will be a year-long series documenting our journey to re-architect our systems to be the best, fastest, most-scalable purge in the industry
Announcing the Cloudflare Images Sourcing Kit
Migrating millions of images into Cloudflare is now simple, fast and at the distance of a few clicks. The new Cloudflare Images Sourcing Kit Allows you to define your image sources, reuse them when you need to add new images or refresh existing ones
Send email using Workers with MailChannels
MailChannels has created an email sending service specifically for Cloudflare Workers that removes all the friction associated with sending emails
Route to Workers, automate your email processing
With Cloudflare Workers and Email Routing you now have a developer platform to implement any logic you ever wanted for programmatically handling incoming Emails.
Closed Caption support coming to Stream Live
Soon, Stream will auto-detect embedded captions and include it in the live stream delivered to your viewers
Stream with sub-second latency is like a magical HDMI cable to the cloud
Starting today, in open beta, Cloudflare Stream supports video playback with sub-second latency over SRT or RTMPS at scale
Bring your own ingest domain to Stream Live
Starting today, every Stream account can configure its own domain in the Stream dashboard.
Cloudflare Stream simplifies creator management for creator platforms
Many Stream customers track video usage on a per-creator basis. Today, we are announcing creator management to make usage tracking much easier
Announcing Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT-based Messaging
Announcing the beta of Cloudflare Pub/Sub, our programmable, serverless message broker built on the open MQTT messaging standard
How we built config staging and versioning with HTTP applications
Learn how we built config versioning and staging for L7 configuration with HTTP Applications
Introducing Custom Domains for Workers
Custom Domains are now available for your Workers. Hook up a Worker to any domain you own, and Cloudflare will handle making DNS records and issuing certificates on your behalf
Our growing Developer Platform partner ecosystem
Cloudflare’s Developer Platform Ecosystem continues to expand ensuring you can integrate with the tools you use, or want to use