Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes of website compromises. To help educate website owners about potential threats to their environments, we’ve compiled a list of important security updates and vulnerability patches for the WordPress ecosystem this […]
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Security professionals everywhere face a paradox: while more data provides the visibility needed to catch threats, it also makes it harder for humans to process it all and find what’s important. When there’s a sudden spike in suspicious traffic, every second counts. But for many security teams — especially lean ones — it’s hard to […]
Troubleshooting network connectivity and performance with Cloudflare AI
Monitoring a corporate network and troubleshooting any performance issues across that network is a hard problem, and it has become increasingly complex over time. Imagine that you’re maintaining a corporate network, and you get the dreaded IT ticket. An executive is having a performance issue with an application, and they want you to look into […]
Cloudy Summarizations of Email Detections: Beta Announcement
Background Organizations face continuous threats from phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and other advanced email attacks. Attackers adapt their tactics daily, forcing defenders to move just as quickly to keep inboxes safe. Cloudflare’s visibility across a large portion of the Internet gives us an unparalleled view of malicious campaigns. We process billions of email threat […]
The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic
On the surface, the goal of handling bot traffic is clear: keep malicious bots away, while letting through the helpful ones. Some bots are evidently malicious — such as mass price scrapers or those testing stolen credit cards. Others are helpful, like the bots that index your website. Cloudflare has segmented this second category of […]
AI Gateway now gives you access to your favorite AI models, dynamic routing and more — through just one endpoint
Getting the observability you need is challenging enough when the code is deterministic, but AI presents a new challenge — a core part of your user’s experience now relies on a non-deterministic engine that provides unpredictable outputs. On top of that, there are many factors that can influence the results: the model, the system prompt. And […]
How we built the most efficient inference engine for Cloudflare’s network
Inference powers some of today’s most powerful AI products: chat bot replies, AI agents, autonomous vehicle decisions, and fraud detection. The problem is, if you’re building one of these products on top of a hyperscaler, you’ll likely need to rent expensive GPUs from large centralized data centers to run your inference tasks. That model doesn’t […]
Securing the AI Revolution: Introducing Cloudflare MCP Server Portals
Securing the AI Revolution: Introducing Cloudflare MCP Server Portals Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving from impressive information retrieval tools into active, intelligent agents. The key to unlocking this transformation is the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard that allows LLMs to securely connect to and interact with any application — from Slack […]
Best Practices for Securing Generative AI with SASE
As Generative AI revolutionizes businesses everywhere, security and IT leaders find themselves in a tough spot. Executives are mandating speedy adoption of Generative AI tools to drive efficiency and stay abreast of competitors. Meanwhile, IT and Security teams must rapidly develop an AI Security Strategy, even before the organization really understands exactly how it plans […]
Block unsafe prompts targeting your LLM endpoints with Firewall for AI
Security teams are racing to secure a new attack surface: AI-powered applications. From chatbots to search assistants, LLMs are already shaping customer experience, but they also open the door to new risks. A single malicious prompt can exfiltrate sensitive data, poison a model, or inject toxic content into customer-facing interactions, undermining user trust. Without guardrails, […]
