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Design & UX — The Teams Dashboard: A New Place to Call Home

The Teams Dashboard: A New Place to Call Home

Today, we’re announcing a new feature within the Teams Dash. We called it “Home”. We created Home with a simple goal in mind: design an adaptive and informative landing page where users can see a round-up of their environment.

ABAbe, BethanyAbe, Bethany·April 2, 2021Design & UX
Networking — Inside Cloudflare: Preventing Account Takeovers

Inside Cloudflare: Preventing Account Takeovers

Throughout the day, Cloudflare has published blog posts on products created to secure our customers from credential stuffing bots, detect users with compromised credentials, and block users from proxy services. But what do we do inside Cloudflare to prevent account takeovers on our own applications?

JJulieJulie·March 30, 2021Networking
Career & Teams — Introducing: Advanced Certificate Manager

Introducing: Advanced Certificate Manager

Today, we are excited to announce that dedicated certs are getting an upgrade… and a new name… introducing Advanced Certificate Manager! Advanced Certificate Manager is a flexible and customizable way to manage your certificates on Cloudflare.

DDinaDina·March 27, 2021Career & Teams
Security — Heartbleed Revisited

Heartbleed Revisited

TLS key compromise is a risk for all web services. Taking lessons from Heartbleed, Cloudflare offers the latest features that make key compromise less of a risk.

NSNick SullivanNick Sullivan·March 27, 2021Security
Engineering — Introducing Super Bot Fight Mode

Introducing Super Bot Fight Mode

Beginning immediately, any Cloudflare user with a Pro or Business site can take new action against bots. We’ve added advanced features in the dashboard and some exciting updates to analytics.

BBensolBensol·March 26, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare

Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare

The word “bots” on the Internet is a fairly loaded one. My earliest ‘bot’ experience was on IRC, where bots were quite helpful in making sure your favorite channel didn’t get taken over by malicious users and allowed for fun games of trivia.

SSergiSergi·March 26, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Announcing API Abuse Detection

Announcing API Abuse Detection

Today, we are announcing early access to API Abuse Detection. This technology will identify, secure, and protect API endpoints with unsupervised learning.

BTBensol, Thomas VissersBensol, Thomas Vissers·March 26, 2021Engineering
Security — Using Cloudflare for Data Loss Prevention

Using Cloudflare for Data Loss Prevention

The increased use of cloud-based SaaS providers to store and access sensitive data introduces a swath of security risks as management of these resources can be unwieldy. The risk of data loss can be managed by using Cloudflare Access, API Shield, and Browser Isolation.

MMishaMisha·March 24, 2021Security
Security — New device security partnerships for Cloudflare One

New device security partnerships for Cloudflare One

Cloudflare launches new integrations with CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and VMware Carbon Black. Cloudflare for Teams customers can now restrict access to their applications based on security signals from their devices.

SKSimon, KennySimon, Kenny·March 23, 2021Security
Security — Announcing antivirus in Cloudflare Gateway

Announcing antivirus in Cloudflare Gateway

We’re announcing support for malware detection and prevention directly from the Cloudflare edge, giving Gateway users an additional line of defense against security threats.

MPMalavika, PeteMalavika, Pete·March 23, 2021Security
Security — Anatomy of a Targeted Ransomware Attack

Anatomy of a Targeted Ransomware Attack

Imagine your most critical systems suddenly stop operating. And then someone demands a ransom to get your systems working again. Or someone launches a DDoS against you and demands a ransom to make it stop. That’s the world of ransomware and ransom DDoS.

CCloudflare·March 23, 2021Security
Security — Welcome to Cloudflare Security Week 2021!

Welcome to Cloudflare Security Week 2021!

Today kicks off Cloudflare's 2021 Security Week. Like all innovation weeks at Cloudflare, we'll be announcing a dizzying number of new products, opening products that have been in beta to general availability.

MPMatthew PrinceMatthew Prince·March 21, 2021Security
Engineering — Random Employee Chats at Cloudflare

Random Employee Chats at Cloudflare

We developed the Random Employee Chats application internally, with the goal of recreating the pre-pandemic informal interactions. Here's how we moved from a shared spreadsheet to Cloudflare Workers to automate the entire process.

SDSven, David WraggSven, David Wragg·March 20, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Cloudflare and WordPress.com partner to Help Build a Better Internet

Cloudflare and WordPress.com partner to Help Build a Better Internet

Today we’re excited to announce a number of initiatives, starting with the integration of Cloudflare’s privacy-first web analytics into WordPress.com. This integration gives WordPress.com publishers choice in how they collect usage data and derive insights about their visitors.

SSStevenpack, SimonStevenpack, Simon·March 19, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Third Time’s the Cache, No More

Third Time’s the Cache, No More

Up until now, we wouldn’t cache requests with query strings until we saw them three times. We trace that behavior back to 2010, examine why we might have needed it, and show ourselves why we don’t need it anymore.

EHEdward H WangEdward H Wang·March 19, 2021Engineering
Security — A deep-dive into Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection

A deep-dive into Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection

Introducing our autonomous DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection system, globally deployed to all of Cloudflare’s 200+ data centers, and is actively protecting all our customers against DDoS attacks across layers 3 to 7 (in the OSI model) without requiring any human intervention.

OOmerOmer·March 18, 2021Security
Security — The Teams Dashboard: The Design Story

The Teams Dashboard: The Design Story

Here is the story of how we took Cloudflare for Teams from initial concepts, to an MVP, to now a comprehensive security platform that secures networks, users, devices, and applications.

BBethanyBethany·March 18, 2021Security
Performance — Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report

Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report

We explored almost 200 websites with the activated Automatic Platform Optimization feature in Chrome User Experience Report data. Automatic Platform Optimization consistently demonstrated better aggregate performance among sites we analyzed in TTFB, First Paint, FCP, and LCP metrics.

YYevgenYevgen·March 16, 2021Performance
Networking — The benefits of serving stale DNS entries when using Consul

The benefits of serving stale DNS entries when using Consul

We use Consul for service discovery, and we’ve deployed a cluster that spans several of our data centers. We were aware from the start that the DNS query latencies were not great from certain parts of the world that were furthest away from these data centers.

ACAndre CruzAndre Cruz·March 8, 2021Networking
Engineering — Happy International Women’s Day!

Happy International Women’s Day!

Here at Cloudflare, we’re thrilled to celebrate International Women’s Day today! We have tons of events planned throughout the month of March, which is our way of honoring Women’s Empowerment Month.

TATalea, AngelaTalea, Angela·March 8, 2021Engineering
Engineering — The Teams Dashboard: Finding a Product Voice

The Teams Dashboard: Finding a Product Voice

Users love products whose voices they recognize. Here’s how we created a voice for the Teams Dashboard, and how we’re working to make our user’s experience more intentional and consistent.

ABAlice BracchiAlice Bracchi·March 5, 2021Engineering
Languages — Conntrack turns a blind eye to dropped SYNs

Conntrack turns a blind eye to dropped SYNs

We have been dealing with conntrack, the connection tracking layer in the Linux kernel, for years. And yet, despite the collected know-how, questions about its inner workings occasionally come up. When they do, it is hard to resist the temptation to go digging for answers.

CCloudflare·March 4, 2021Languages
Engineering — How to execute an object file: Part 1

How to execute an object file: Part 1

Ever wondered if it is possible to execute an object file without linking? Or use any object file as a library? Follow along to learn how to decompose an object file and import code from it along the way.

IIgnatIgnat·March 2, 2021Engineering
Engineering — The Teams Dashboard: Behind the Scenes

The Teams Dashboard: Behind the Scenes

When we launched Cloudflare for Teams almost ten years later, the vision was very much the same — build a secure and powerful Zero Trust solution that is ridiculously easy to use.

AAbeAbe·March 1, 2021Engineering
Languages — Creating serendipity with Python

Creating serendipity with Python

We've been experimenting with breaking up employees into random groups (of size 4) and setting up video hangouts between them. We're doing this to replace the serendipitous meetings that sometimes occur around coffee machines, in lunch lines or while waiting for the printer.

JGJohn Graham CummingJohn Graham Cumming·February 25, 2021Languages
Engineering — Introducing: Smarter Tiered Cache Topology Generation

Introducing: Smarter Tiered Cache Topology Generation

Announcing a fundamental improvement to Argo Tiered Cache we’re calling Smart Tiered Cache Topology. When enabled, Argo Tiered Cache will now dynamically select the single best upper tier for each of your website’s origins while providing tiered cache analytics.

AAlexAlex·February 18, 2021Engineering
Security — 2020 U.S. Election: Cybersecurity Analysis

2020 U.S. Election: Cybersecurity Analysis

As we protect many entities in the election space, we have the ability to identify, learn and analyze attack trends targeted at these sites that provide authoritative election information.

JJocelynJocelyn·February 9, 2021Security
Engineering — Congratulations to Cloudflare’s 2020 Partner Award Winners

Congratulations to Cloudflare’s 2020 Partner Award Winners

We are privileged to share Cloudflare’s inaugural set of Partner Awards. These Awards recognize our partner companies and representatives worldwide who stood out this past year for their investments in acquiring technical expertise in our offerings

MKMatthew, KristinaMatthew, Kristina·February 8, 2021Engineering