In October 2024, we started publishing roundup blog posts to share the latest features and updates from our teams. Today, we are announcing general availability for Account Owned Tokens, which allow organizations to improve access control for their Cloudflare services. Additionally, we are launching Zaraz Automated Actions, which is a new feature designed to streamline […]
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A look at the latest post-quantum signature standardization candidates
On October 24, 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that they’re advancing fourteen post-quantum signature schemes to the second round of the “signatures on ramp” competition. “Post-quantum” means that these algorithms are designed to resist the attack of quantum computers. NIST already standardized four post-quantum signature schemes (ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, XMSS, and […]
Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election
Elections are not just a matter of casting ballots. They depend on citizens being able to register to vote and accessing information about candidates and the election process, which in turn depend on the strength and security of the Internet. Despite the risks posed by potential cyberattacks aimed to disrupt democracy, Cloudflare did not observe […]
Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary
Cloudflare’s network spans more than 330 cities in over 120 countries, where we interconnect with over 13,000 network providers in order to provide a broad range of services to millions of customers. The breadth of both our network and our customer base provides us with a unique perspective on Internet resilience, enabling us to observe […]
Elephants in tunnels: how Hyperdrive connects to databases inside your VPC networks
With September’s announcement of Hyperdrive’s ability to send database traffic from Workers over Cloudflare Tunnels, we wanted to dive into the details of what it took to make this happen. Hyper-who? Accessing your data from anywhere in Region Earth can be hard. Traditional databases are powerful, familiar, and feature-rich, but your users can be thousands […]
Billions and billions (of logs): scaling AI Gateway with the Cloudflare Developer Platform
With the rapid advancements occurring in the AI space, developers face significant challenges in keeping up with the ever-changing landscape. New models and providers are continuously emerging, and understandably, developers want to experiment and test these options to find the best fit for their use cases. This creates the need for a streamlined approach to […]
4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare's Q3 DDoS report
Welcome to the 19th 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 third quarter of 2024. With a 296 Terabit per second (Tbps) network located in over 330 cities worldwide, Cloudflare is […]
Fearless SSH: short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure
BastionZero joined Cloudflare in May 2024. We are thrilled to announce Access for Infrastructure as BastionZero’s native integration into our SASE platform, Cloudflare One. Access for Infrastructure will enable organizations to apply Zero Trust controls in front of their servers, databases, network devices, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Today, we’re announcing short-lived SSH access as the […]
Is this thing on? Using OpenBMC and ACPI power states for reliable server boot
Introduction At Cloudflare, we provide a range of services through our global network of servers, located in 330 cities worldwide. When you interact with our long-standing application services, or newer services like Workers AI, you’re in contact with one of our fleet of thousands of servers which support those services. These servers which provide Cloudflare […]
Protect against identity-based attacks by sharing Cloudflare user risk scores with Okta
Cloudflare One, our secure access service edge (SASE) platform, is introducing a new integration with Okta, the identity and access management (IAM) vendor, to share risk indicators in real-time and simplify how organizations can dynamically manage their security posture in response to changes across their environments. For many organizations, it is becoming increasingly challenging and […]
