On Sunday, December 13, FireEye released a report on a sophisticated supply chain attack leveraging SolarWinds’ Orion IT monitoring software. The malware was distributed as part of regular updates to Orion and had a valid digital signature.One of the notable features of the malware is the way it hides its network traffic using a multi-staged…
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I started at Cloudflare in April 2018. I was excited to join an innovative company that operates with integrity and takes customer needs into account when planning product roadmaps. After 2.5 years at Cloudflare, this excitement has only grown, as it has become even clearer that our customers’ feedback is essential to our business. At…
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Privacy matters. Privacy and Compliance are at the heart of Cloudflare’s products and solutions. We are committed to providing built-in data protection and privacy throughout our global network and for every product in our portfolio. This is why we have dedicated a whole week to highlight important aspects of how we are working to make…
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Over the past week, you’ve heard how Cloudflare is making it easy for our customers to control where their data is stored and protected.We’re not the only ones building these data controls. Around the world, companies are working to figure out where and how to store customer data in a way that is compliant with…
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The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) blocks more than 72B malicious requests per day from reaching our customers’ applications. Typically, our users can easily confirm these requests were not legitimate by checking the URL, the query parameters, or other metadata that Cloudflare provides as part of the security event log in the dashboard.Sometimes investigating a…
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We’ve spent a lot of time over the course of this week talking about Cloudflare engineers building technical solutions to improve privacy, increase control over data, and thereby, help our customers address regulatory challenges. But not all challenges can be solved with engineering. We sometimes have to build policies and procedures that anticipate our customers’…
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Quantum computing is inevitable; cryptography prepares for the futureQuantum computing began in the early 1980s. It operates on principles of quantum physics rather than the limitations of circuits and electricity, which is why it is capable of processing highly complex mathematical problems so efficiently. Quantum computing could one day achieve things that classical computing simply…
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We wanted to close out Privacy & Compliance Week by talking about something universal and certain: taxes. Businesses worldwide pay employment taxes based on where their employees do work. For most businesses and in normal times, where employees do work has been relatively easy to determine: it’s where they come into the office. But 2020…
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