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클라우드, 네트워크, 애플리케이션 및 사용자를 연결하고 보호하는 현대적인 방법인 클라우드 연결성으로 여러분을 모십니다

Welcome to connectivity cloud: the modern way to connect and protect your clouds, networks, applications and users

우리가 근무하면서 가장 좋아하는 부분은 Cloudflare 고객과 대화하는 시간입니다. 고객의 IT 및 보안 문제에 대하여 항상 새롭고 흥미로운 사실을 알게 됩니다.

최근 이러한 대화에 변화가 있었습니다. 고객이 언급하는 가장 큰 문제를 쉽게 정의할 수 없는 경우가 점점 더 많아집니다. 그리고 이러한 문제는 개별 제품이나 주요 기능으로 대처할 수 없는 것입니다.

더 정확히 말하면 IT 및 보안 팀에서는 디지털 환경에 대한 제어 능력을 잃고 있다고 이야기합니다.

제어 능력 상실은 다양한 형태를 띱니다. 고객은 호환성이 걱정되므로 필요성은 알지만 새로운 기능을 채택하는 것을 꺼리는 모습을 보일 수 있습니다. 아니면 비교적 단순한 변경 사항을 적용하는 데 시간과 노력이 많이 들며, 이러한 변경 사항 때문에 더 큰 영향력이 있을 작업에 투입할 시간을 빼앗기고 있다고 언급할 수도 있습니다. 고객이 느끼는 감정을 요약하자면 "팀이나 예산의 규모가 아무리 크더라도 비즈니스를 완벽하게 연결하고 보호하는 데는 절대 충분하지 않다"는 것입니다.

익숙하게 느껴지는 부분이 있으신가요? 그런 부분이 있다 해도 여러분 혼자 그렇게 느끼는 건 아닙니다.

제어 능력을 상실하는 이유

IT 및 보안이 바뀌는 속도는 빨라지고 있으며 무섭도록 복잡해지고 있습니다. IT 및 보안 팀에서는 과거에 비해 더 다양한 기술 도메인을 책임지고 있습니다. 최근 Forrester 연구에서 확인된 변화에 따르면 사내, 원격, 하이브리드 근무자를 보호할 책임이 있는 팀의 52%만이 지난 5년 동안 이러한 책임을 맡았습니다. 한편 46%는 해당 기간 동안 퍼블릭 클라우드 애플리케이션을 Continue reading

Welcome to connectivity cloud: the modern way to connect and protect your clouds, networks, applications and users

Welcome to connectivity cloud: the modern way to connect and protect your clouds, networks, applications and users

Welcome to connectivity cloud: the modern way to connect and protect your clouds, networks, applications and users

The best part of our job is the time we spend talking to Cloudflare customers. We always learn something new and interesting about their IT and security challenges.

In recent years, something about those conversations has changed. More and more, the biggest challenge customers tell us about isn’t something that’s easy to define. And it’s definitely not something you can address with an individual product or feature.

Rather, what we’re hearing from IT and security teams is that they are losing control of their digital environment.

This loss of control comes in a few flavors. They might express hesitance about adopting a new capability they know they need, because of compatibility concerns. Or maybe they’ll talk about how much time and effort it takes to make relatively simple changes, and how those changes take time away from more impactful work. If we had to sum the feeling up, it would be something like, “No matter how large my team or budget, it’s never enough to fully connect and protect the business.”

Does any of this feel familiar? If so, let us tell you that you are far from alone.

Welcome to connectivity cloud: the modern way to connect and protect your clouds, networks, applications and users

Reasons for loss of control

The rate of change in Continue reading

Come join us at Cloudflare Connect New York this Thursday!

Come join us at Cloudflare Connect New York this Thursday!
Come join us at Cloudflare Connect New York this Thursday!

We take a break from Platform Week to share big news – we’re going to New York this week for our Cloudflare Connect customer event.

We’re packing our bags, getting on planes and heading to New York to do our first live customer event since 2019 and we could not be more excited.  It is time with you – the people building, delivering and securing the apps and networks we know and trust – that are the inspiration for the innovation we deliver.  We can’t wait to spend time with you.

Our co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince will kick off the day with his view from the top.  We’ll then be breaking out into focused conversations to dig in on our latest product news and roadmaps.

Excited about what we’re talking about for Platform Week?  Come chat with the Workers team in person and hear more about the roadmap.

Intrigued by the latest DDoS stats we posted and want to learn more?  Meet with the team analyzing the attacks and learn about where we go from here.

Not sure where to start your Zero Trust journey?  We’ll talk you through what we’re seeing and introduce you to other customers who Continue reading

The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation

The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation
The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation

We are 11! And we also may be a little bleary-eyed and giddy from a week of shipping.

The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation

Our Birthday Weeks are one of my favorite Cloudflare traditions — where we release innovations that help to build a better Internet. Just this week we tackled email security, expanded our network into office buildings, and entered into the Web3 world.

The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation

But these weeks also precipitate the most common questions I’m asked from my product and engineering peers across the industry: how do we do it? How do we get so much stuff out so quickly? That we are able to innovate — and innovate so quickly — is no happy accident. In fact, this capability has been very deliberately built into the DNA of Cloudflare. I want to touch on three of the reasons unique to us: one relates to our people, one relates to our technology, and one relates to our customers.

Cultivating curiosity

The seeds of innovative ideas start with our team. One of the core things we look for when hiring in every role at Cloudflare — be it engineering and product or sales or account — is curiosity. We seek people who approach a situation Continue reading

On the Leading Edge – Cloudflare named a leader in The Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Solutions

On the Leading Edge - Cloudflare named a leader in The Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Solutions

On the Leading Edge - Cloudflare named a leader in The Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Solutions

Cloudflare has been recognized as a leader in the “Forrester WaveTM: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q4 2017.”

The DDoS landscape continues to evolve. The increase in sophistication, frequency, and range of targets of DDoS attacks has placed greater demands on DDoS providers, many of which were evaluated in the report.

This year, Cloudflare received the highest scores possible in 15 criteria, including:

  • Length of Implementation
  • Layers 3 and 4 Attacks Mitigation
  • DNS Attack Mitigation
  • IoT Botnets
  • Multi-Vector Attacks
  • Filtering Deployment
  • Secure Socket Layer Investigation
  • Mitigation Capacity
  • Pricing Model

We believe that Cloudflare’s position as a leader in the report stems from the following:

  • An architecture designed to address high-volume attacks. This post written in October 2016 provides some insight into how Cloudflare’s architecture scales to meet the most advanced DDoS attacks differently than legacy scrubbing centers.

  • In September 2017, due to the size and effectiveness of our network, we announced the elimination of “surge pricing” commonly found in other DDoS vendors by offering unmetered mitigation. Regardless of what Cloudflare plan a customer is on—Free, Pro, Business, or Enterprise—we will never terminate a customer or charge more based on the size of an attack.

  • Because we protect over 7 Continue reading