Announcing Network On-ramp Partners for Cloudflare One
2021-03-22
We know the promise of replacing MPLS links with a global, secure, performant and observable network is going to transform the corporate network and the industry itself. ...
Welcome to Cloudflare Security Week 2021!
2021-03-21
Today kicks off Cloudflare's 2021 Security Week. Like all innovation weeks at Cloudflare, we'll be announcing a dizzying number of new products, opening products that have been in beta to general availability....
Moving k8s communication to gRPC
2021-03-20
How we use gRPC in combination with Kubernetes to improve the performance and usability of internal APIs....
Random Employee Chats at Cloudflare
2021-03-20
We developed the Random Employee Chats application internally, with the goal of recreating the pre-pandemic informal interactions. Here's how we moved from a shared spreadsheet to Cloudflare Workers to automate the entire process....
Cloudflare and WordPress.com partner to Help Build a Better Internet
2021-03-19
Today we’re excited to announce a number of initiatives, starting with the integration of Cloudflare’s privacy-first web analytics into WordPress.com. This integration gives WordPress.com publishers choice in how they collect usage data and derive insights about their visitors. ...
Third Time’s the Cache, No More
2021-03-19
Up until now, we wouldn’t cache requests with query strings until we saw them three times. We trace that behavior back to 2010, examine why we might have needed it, and show ourselves why we don’t need it anymore....
Sophisticated Microsoft Spoof Targets Financial Departments
2021-03-18
A sophisticated Microsoft Office 365 credential harvesting campaign targets financial departments at companies across multiple industries, as well as newly-appointed CEOs and executive assistants....
A deep-dive into Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection
2021-03-18
Introducing our autonomous DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection system, globally deployed to all of Cloudflare’s 200+ data centers, and is actively protecting all our customers against DDoS attacks across layers 3 to 7 (in the OSI model) without requiring any human intervention....
The Teams Dashboard: The Design Story
2021-03-18
Here is the story of how we took Cloudflare for Teams from initial concepts, to an MVP, to now a comprehensive security platform that secures networks, users, devices, and applications....
Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report
2021-03-16
We explored almost 200 websites with the activated Automatic Platform Optimization feature in Chrome User Experience Report data. Automatic Platform Optimization consistently demonstrated better aggregate performance among sites we analyzed in TTFB, First Paint, FCP, and LCP metrics....
Enhancing privacy-focused Web Analytics to better meet your metrics needs
2021-03-15
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of three of the most requested features: adding multiple websites to an account, supporting Single-page Applications (SPA) as well as showing Core Web Vitals in Web Analytics....
Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform
2021-03-12
Anomaly Detection uses an algorithm called Histogram-Based Outlier Scoring (HBOS) to detect anomalous traffic in a scalable way. While HBOS is less precise than algorithms like kNN when it comes to local outliers, it is able to score global outliers quickly (in linear time)....
ARMs Race: Ampere Altra takes on the AWS Graviton2
2021-03-11
A comparison between the Ampere Altra and the AWS Graviton2, the two ARM Neoverse N1-based processors....
About the March 8 & 9, 2021 Verkada camera hack
2021-03-10
To be clear: this hack affected the cameras and nothing else. No customer data was accessed, no production systems, no databases, no encryption keys, nothing. ...
Control web applications with two-clicks in Cloudflare Gateway
2021-03-09
Announcing Application policies in Cloudflare Gateway. With Gateway, users instead connect to one of Cloudflare’s data centers in 200 cities around the world where our network can apply consistent security policies for all of their Internet traffic....
The benefits of serving stale DNS entries when using Consul
2021-03-08
We use Consul for service discovery, and we’ve deployed a cluster that spans several of our data centers. We were aware from the start that the DNS query latencies were not great from certain parts of the world that were furthest away from these data centers....
Happy International Women’s Day!
2021-03-08
Here at Cloudflare, we’re thrilled to celebrate International Women’s Day today! We have tons of events planned throughout the month of March, which is our way of honoring Women’s Empowerment Month....
Protecting against recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065
2021-03-07
Cloudflare has deployed managed rules protecting customers against a series of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that were recently found in Microsoft Exchange Server. ...
The Teams Dashboard: Finding a Product Voice
2021-03-05
Users love products whose voices they recognize. Here’s how we created a voice for the Teams Dashboard, and how we’re working to make our user’s experience more intentional and consistent....
Conntrack turns a blind eye to dropped SYNs
2021-03-04
We have been dealing with conntrack, the connection tracking layer in the Linux kernel, for years. And yet, despite the collected know-how, questions about its inner workings occasionally come up. When they do, it is hard to resist the temptation to go digging for answers....
