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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 […]

What’s new in Cloudflare One: Digital Experience (DEX) monitoring notifications and seamless access to Cloudflare Gateway with China Express

At Cloudflare, we are constantly innovating and launching new features and capabilities across our product portfolio. We are introducing roundup blog posts to ensure that you never miss the latest updates across our platform. In this post, we are excited to share two new ways that our customers can continue to keep their web properties […]

Leveraging Kubernetes virtual machines at Cloudflare with KubeVirt

Cloudflare runs several multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters across our core data centers. These general-purpose clusters run on bare metal and power our control plane, analytics, and various engineering tools such as build infrastructure and continuous integration. Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform. It enables software engineers to deploy containerized applications to a cluster of machines. This […]

Cloudflare acquires Kivera to add simple, preventive cloud security to Cloudflare One

We’re excited to announce that Kivera, a cloud security, data protection, and compliance company, has joined Cloudflare. This acquisition extends our SASE portfolio to incorporate inline cloud app controls, empowering Cloudflare One customers with preventative security controls for all their cloud services. In today’s digital landscape, cloud services and SaaS (software as a service) apps […]

Enhance your website's security with Cloudflare’s free security.txt generator

A story of security and simplicity Meet Georgia, a diligent website administrator at a growing e-commerce company. Every day, Georgia juggles multiple tasks, from managing server uptime to ensuring customer data security. One morning, Georgia receives an email from a security researcher who discovered a potential vulnerability on the website. The researcher struggled to find […]

How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack

Since early September, Cloudflare’s DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks. Cloudflare’s defenses mitigated over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month, with many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3 terabits per second (Tbps). The largest attack peaked 3.8 Tbps — the largest […]

Wrapping up another Birthday Week celebration

2024 marks Cloudflare’s 14th birthday. Birthday Week each year is packed with major announcements and the release of innovative new offerings, all focused on giving back to our customers and the broader Internet community. Birthday Week has become a proud tradition at Cloudflare and our culture, to not just stay true to our mission, but […]

Reaffirming our commitment to free

Cloudflare launched our free tier at the same time our company launched — fourteen years ago, on September 27, 2010. Of course, a bit has changed since then — there are now millions of Internet properties behind Cloudflare. As we’ve grown in size and amassed millions of free customers, one of the questions we often […]