In December 2022 we announced the closed beta of the new version of Geo Key Manager. Geo Key Manager v2 (GeoV2) is the next step in our journey to provide customers with a secure and flexible way to control the distribution of their private keys by geographic location. Our original system, Geo Key Manager v1, […]
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Towards a global framework for cross-border data flows and privacy protection
This post is also available in Deutsch and Français. As our societies and economies rely more and more on digital technologies, there is an increased need to share and transfer data, including personal data, over the Internet. Cross-border data flows have become essential to international trade and global economic development. In fact, the digital transformation […]
Rumo a uma estrutura global para fluxos de dados internacionais e proteção da privacidade
À medida que as nossas sociedades e economias dependem cada vez mais das tecnologias digitais, aumenta a necessidade de partilhar e transferir dados, incluindo dados pessoais, através da internet. Os fluxos de dados internacionais tornaram-se essenciais para o comércio internacional e o desenvolvimento econômico global. Na verdade, a transformação digital da economia global nunca poderia […]
Navigating the changing data localization landscape with Cloudflare’s Data Localization Suite
This post is also available in Português and Français. At Cloudflare, we believe that deploying effective cybersecurity measures is the best way to protect the privacy of personal information and can be more effective than making sure that information stays within a particular jurisdiction. Yet, we hear from customers in Europe, India, Australia, Japan, and […]
Investing in security to protect data privacy
This post is also available in Deutsch, Français and Português. If you’ve made it to 2023 without ever receiving a notice that your personal information was compromised in a security breach, consider yourself lucky. In a best case scenario, bad actors only got your email address and name – information that won’t cause you a […]
Armed to Boot: an enhancement to Arm's Secure Boot chain
Over the last few years, there has been a rise in the number of attacks that affect how a computer boots. Most modern computers use a specification called Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) that defines a software interface between an operating system (e.g. Windows) and platform firmware (e.g. disk drives, video cards). There are security […]
Cloudflare incident on January 24, 2023
Several Cloudflare services became unavailable for 121 minutes on January 24, 2023 due to an error releasing code that manages service tokens. The incident degraded a wide range of Cloudflare products including aspects of our Workers platform, our Zero Trust solution, and control plane functions in our content delivery network (CDN). Cloudflare provides a service […]
Intelligent, automatic restarts for unhealthy Kafka consumers
At Cloudflare, we take steps to ensure we are resilient against failure at all levels of our infrastructure. This includes Kafka, which we use for critical workflows such as sending time-sensitive emails and alerts. We learned a lot about keeping our applications that leverage Kafka healthy, so they can always be operational. Application health checks […]
Cloud CNI privately connects your clouds to Cloudflare
This post is also available in 简体中文, 日本語 and Español. For CIOs, networking is a hard process that is often made harder. Corporate networks have so many things that need to be connected and each one of them needs to be connected differently: user devices need managed connectivity through a Secure Web Gateway, offices need […]
CIO Week 2023 recap
This post is also available in 日本語, 简体中文, Français, Deutsch and Español. In our Welcome to CIO Week 2023 post, we talked about wanting to start the year by celebrating the work Chief Information Officers do to keep their organizations safe and productive. Over the past week, you learned about announcements addressing all facets of […]
