January 07, 2020
Ten years ago, when Cloudflare was created, the Internet was a place that people visited. People still talked about ‘surfing the web’ and the iPhone was less than two years old, but on July 4, 2009 large scale DDoS attacks were launched against websites in the US and South Korea....
January 07, 2020
When Cloudflare launched, businesses bought expensive on-premise hardware to keep their sites online. If they wanted those sites to be faster, or safer, they needed to buy more boxes. ...
January 07, 2020
Cloudflare announced today that it has purchased S2 Systems Corporation, a Seattle-area startup that has built an innovative remote browser isolation solution unlike any other currently in the market....
November 17, 2019
Cloudflare Access can give your team the ability to introduce logging in a single gateway that applies to all resources protected behind it....
October 25, 2019
If your organization uses SSH public keys, it’s entirely possible you have already lost one. There is a file sitting in a backup or on a former employees computer which grants the holder access to your infrastructure....
July 18, 2019
Securing access to your APT repositories is critical. At Cloudflare, like in most organizations, we used a legacy VPN to lock down who could reach our internal software repositories. However, a network perimeter model lacks a number of features that we consider critical to a team...
June 02, 2019
If you want to start an intense conversation in the halls of Cloudflare, try describing us as a "CDN". CDNs don't generally provide you with Load Balancing, they don't allow you to deploy Serverless Applications, and they certainly don't get installed onto your phone. ...
February 21, 2019
Last fall, the United States FBI warned organizations of an increase in attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Attackers stole sensitive data and compromised networks by taking advantage of desktops left unprotected....
February 07, 2019
Cloudflare Access secures your internal sites by adding authentication. When a request is made to a site behind Access, Cloudflare asks the visitor to login with your identity provider....
November 16, 2018
You can now place applications that require SSH connections, like your source control repository, behind Cloudflare Access. We’re excited to release that same feature so that your team can also destroy your own VPN....
October 05, 2018
We built Access to solve a problem here at Cloudflare: our VPN. Our team members hated the slowness and inconvenience of VPN but, that wasn’t the issue we needed to solve. The security risks posed by a VPN required a better solution....
October 02, 2018
Here at Cloudflare, we rely on a set of productivity tools built by Atlassian, including Jira and Confluence. We secure them with Cloudflare Access. In the past, when our team members wanted to reach those applications, they first logged in with our identity provider credentials ...
August 15, 2018
Since leaving beta three weeks ago, Cloudflare Access has become our fastest-growing subscription service. Every day, more teams are using Access to leave their VPN behind and connect to applications quickly and securely from anywhere in the world....
July 24, 2018
Using a VPN breaks your workflow with logins, needs separate credentials for admins to handle, slows you when not in the office, and brings security risks that extend past mere inconvenience to users....
April 23, 2018
Today we would like to announce support for two more Identity Providers with Cloudflare Access: Centrify and OneLogin. If you are using Centrify or OneLogin as your identity provider you can now easily integrate them with Cloudflare Access....
January 17, 2018
Tell me if this sounds familiar: any connection from inside the corporate network is trusted and any connection from the outside is not. This is the security strategy used by most enterprises today. The problem is that security is breached, the attacker has access to everything....
