How Pingora keeps count
2023-05-12
In this blog post, we explain and open source the counting algorithm that powers Pingora. This will be the first of a series of blog posts that share both the Pingora libraries and the ideas behind them...
The Linux Crypto API for user applications
2023-05-11
If you run your software on Linux, the Linux Kernel itself can satisfy all your cryptographic needs! In this post we will explore Linux Crypto API for user applications and try to understand its pros and cons...
How the coronation of King Charles III affected Internet traffic
2023-05-10
As the coronation ceremony unfolded, on Saturday morning, May 6, 2023, there were clear spikes and dips in traffic, each coinciding with key moments of the ceremony...
Introducing Object Lifecycle Management for Cloudflare R2
2023-05-10
We’re excited to announce that Object Lifecycle Management for R2 is generally available, allowing you to effectively manage object expiration, all from the R2 dashboard or via our API...
The European Network Usage Fees proposal is about much more than a fight between Big Tech and Big European telcos
2023-05-08
There’s an important debate happening in Europe that could affect the future of the Internet. The European Commission is considering new rules for how networks connect to each other on the Internet....
Cloudflare is faster than Netskope and Zscaler across LATAM
2023-05-03
With 47 data centers across Latin America and Caribbean, Cloudflare has the largest number of SASE Points of Presence across all vendors, meaning we can offer our Zero Trust services closer to the end user and reduce unwanted latency...
How we built Network Analytics v2
2023-05-02
Network Analytics v2 is a fundamental redesign of the backend systems that power Network Analytics...
Effects of the conflict in Sudan on Internet patterns
2023-05-02
On Saturday, April 15, 2023, an armed conflict between rival factions of the military government of Sudan began. Cloudflare observed a disruption in Internet traffic on that Saturday, starting at 08:00 UTC, which deepened on Sunday...
Celebrating Australia’s Privacy Awareness Week 2023
2023-05-01
Cloudflare is proud to be an official sponsor of the Australian Privacy Awareness Week 2023, and we’re excited to play a role in building and using privacy and security technologies to help our customers keep their sensitive information private – technologies that form the new “privacy basics”...
SLP: a new DDoS amplification vector in the wild
2023-04-25
Researchers have recently published the discovery of a new DDoS reflection/amplification attack vector leveraging the SLP protocol. Cloudflare expects the prevalence of SLP-based DDoS attacks to rise in the coming weeks...
Why I joined Cloudflare as Chief Security Officer
2023-04-21
As someone who is passionate about technology, security, and its potential to improve our lives, I knew that I wanted to work for a company that shared those values. ...
Secure by default: recommendations from the CISA’s newest guide, and how Cloudflare follows these principles to keep you secure
2023-04-20
In this post we’ll review some of the authors’ recommendations, discuss how Cloudflare applies these principles to the products that we build, and provide some suggestions on what other organizations can do to support similar initiatives internally...
Oxy: Fish/Bumblebee/Splicer subsystems to improve reliability
2023-04-20
We split a proxy application into multiple services to improve development agility and reliability. This blog also shares some common patterns we are leveraging to design a system supporting zero-downtime restart...
How Easter, Passover and Ramadan show up in Internet trends
2023-04-19
How Easter (including Orthodox Easter), Passover & Ramadan affected 2023 Internet traffic...
DDR4 memory organization and how it affects memory bandwidth
2023-04-19
In this blog, we will study the concepts of memory rank and organization, and how memory rank and organization affect the memory bandwidth performance by reviewing some benchmarking test results...
Consent management made easy and clear with Cloudflare Zaraz
2023-04-18
Cloudflare Zaraz now can also help you with gathering and managing consent. With this new tool, you can easily collect user’s consent preferences on your website, using a consent modal, and apply your consent policy on third-party tools you load via Cloudflare Zaraz...
Measuring network quality to better understand the end-user experience
2023-04-18
Starting today, you don’t have to be a network engineer to figure out what your Internet is good for. Let’s tell you how we’re doing it....
Making home Internet faster has little to do with “speed”
2023-04-18
The speed of an Internet connection is more about decreasing real-world latency than adding underutilized bandwidth...
Cloudflare One named in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge
2023-04-13
Cloudflare Zero Trust named to Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge...
Introducing Cloudflare’s new Network Analytics dashboard
2023-04-12
Learn how the new and improved Network Analytics dashboard provides security professionals insights into their DDoS attack and traffic landscape...