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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 […]

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 […]