The First Three Winners from Cloudflare’s Project Jengo 2 Share $20,000
This past April we announced the revival of Project Jengo in response to a patent troll called Sable Networks that sued Cloudflare even though our technology and products are nothing like what’s described in Sable’s patents. This is only one part of Sable’s larger campaign against innovative technology companies — Sable sued five other technology companies earlier this year, and had sued seven other technology companies under the same patents last year.
Just as we have done in the past, we decided to fight back rather than feed the troll — which would only make it stronger. You see, unlike Cloudflare and other operating companies that were sued, Sable Networks isn’t in the business of providing products and services to the market. Rather, it exists to extract settlements out of productive companies that are creating value to the society.
Project Jengo is a prior art search contest where we ask the Cloudflare community for help in finding evidence (“prior art”) that shows Sable’s patents are invalid because they claim something that was already known at the time the patent application was filed. We committed $100,000 in cash prizes to be shared by the winners who were successful in finding Continue reading
Capturing Purpose Justification in Cloudflare Access
The digital world often takes its cues from the real world. For example, there’s a standard question every guard or agent asks when you cross a border—whether it’s a building, a neighborhood, or a country: “What’s the purpose of your visit?” It’s a logical question: sure, the guard knows some information—like who you are (thanks to your ID) and when you’ve arrived—but the context of “why” is equally important. It can set expectations around behavior during your visit, as well as what spaces you should or should not have access to.
Digital access follows suit. Recent data protection regulations, such as the GDPR, have formalized concepts of purpose limitation and data proportionality: people should only access data necessary for a specific stated reason. System owners know people need access to do their job, but especially for particularly sensitive applications, knowing why a login was needed is just as vital as knowing who, when, and how.
Starting today, Cloudflare for Teams administrators can prompt users to enter a justification for accessing an application prior to login. Administrators can add this Continue reading
Day Two Cloud 111: Infrastructure As Software With Kris Nóva
Kris Nóva, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Twilio, claims that managing infrastructure using tools like Terraform isn't that far away from just writing your own code to do the job yourself. Kris joins co-hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks to challenge the notion that ops folks can't become developers. Kris says they can.Day Two Cloud 111: Infrastructure As Software With Kris Nóva
Kris Nóva, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Twilio, claims that managing infrastructure using tools like Terraform isn't that far away from just writing your own code to do the job yourself. Kris joins co-hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks to challenge the notion that ops folks can't become developers. Kris says they can.
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How To Become A Mentor In Your Career Field
Becoming a mentor doesn’t just help others. It enables you to enhance your professional development too. That is because it is a mutually beneficial partnership that helps both parties involved, i.e., the mentor and mentee.
If you are looking to become a mentor, you are in the right place. Here are the top tips that will help you in how to become a mentor in your career field.
1. Find A Mentee
You can use your organization or professional network to find a mentee. However, many of the best mentoring relationships develop organically without you having to try. If you feel there is a junior in your organization that you offer advice to, you can always become their mentee.
Mentoring programs inside the organization are an excellent way to engage the staff, retain employees, and pass expertise. So, if you have such a program in your organization, you will find a mentee in no time.
2. Set Expectations
Once you have found a mentee in your organization, it is time to set expectations. That is because establishing guidelines help maintain a good working relationship. Your mentee will know what you expect and vice versa. Continue reading
Automation Simplifies Mobile Transport Network Rollouts
Automation to simplify the provisioning and configuration of transport network elements (NEs) will be key to performing much of the arduous tasks required to get equipment up and running.Register for the 5th Annual Indigenous Connectivity Summit
In its second year as a virtual event, the Indigenous Connectivity Summit will take place on 12-15 October 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic showed us that those who lack connectivity face the effects of starker inequalities. Millions of people across Canada and the United States still can’t take advantage of the benefits of a fast, affordable, […]
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Full Stack Journey 057: Open Policy Agent
What is Open Policy Agent (OPA)? And what can someone do with it? These are some of the questions that episode 57 of the Full Stack Journey podcast tackles. In this episode, Scott is joined by Diego Comas (@diegocomas on Twitter), a user/consumer of OPA, to discuss his direct experience in using OPA in real production environments.
Full Stack Journey 057: Open Policy Agent
What is Open Policy Agent (OPA)? And what can someone do with it? These are some of the questions that episode 57 of the Full Stack Journey podcast tackles. In this episode, Scott is joined by Diego Comas (@diegocomas on Twitter), a user/consumer of OPA, to discuss his direct experience in using OPA in real production environments.
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6 New Ways to Validate Device Posture
Cloudflare for Teams gives your organization the ability to build rules that determine who can reach specified resources. When we first launched, those rules primarily relied on identity. This helped our customers replace their private networks with a model that evaluated every request for who was connecting, but this lacked consideration for how they were connecting.
In March, we began to change that. We announced new integrations that give you the ability to create rules that consider the device as well. Starting today, we’re excited to share that you can now build additional rules that consider several different factors about the device, like its OS, patch status, and domain join or disk encryption status. This has become increasingly important over the last year as more and more people began connecting from home. Powered by the Cloudflare WARP agent, your team now has control over more health factors about the devices that connect to your applications.
Zero Trust is more than just identity
With Cloudflare for Teams, administrators can replace their Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), where users on the network were trusted, with an alternative that does not trust any connection by default—also known as a Zero Trust model.
Customers Continue reading
Musing: Does 802.1x Matter Anymore ?
802.1X has little relevance over time. As distributed work becomes widespread, laptops and smartphones will not connect to campus or branch networks operated by IT departments. Home broadband, cafes, kids schools, 4G/5g etc. Each user device will have some software mechanism/agent/method to access resources in SaaS, on/off prem DC/cloud and on son There is a market […]