Building a security overview dashboard for actionable insights

For years, the industry’s answer to threats was “more visibility.” But more visibility without context is just more noise. For the modern security team, the biggest challenge is no longer a lack of data; it is the overwhelming surplus of it. Most security professionals start their day navigating a sea of dashboards, hunting through disparate logs to answer a single, deceptively simple question: "What now?"

When you are forced to pivot between different tools just to identify a single misconfiguration, you’re losing the window of opportunity to prevent an incident. That’s why we built a revamped Security Overview dashboard: a single interface designed to empower defenders, by moving from reactive monitoring to proactive control.

The new Security Overview dashboard.

From noise to action: rethinking the security overview 

Historically, dashboards focused on showing you everything that was happening. But for a busy security analyst, the more important question is, "What do I need to fix right now?"

To solve this, we are introducing Security Action Items. This feature acts as a functional bridge between detection and investigation, surfacing vulnerabilities, so you no longer have to hunt for them. To help you triage effectively, items are ranked by criticality:

netlab 26.03: EVPN/MPLS, IOS XR Features

netlab release 26.03 is out. Here are the highlights:

For even more details, check the release notes.

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How AI Agents Communicate: Understanding the A2A Protocol for Kubernetes

Since the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and GPT-4, organizations have been rapidly adopting Agentic AI to automate and enhance their workflows. Agentic AI refers to AI systems that act autonomously, perceiving their environment, making decisions, and taking actions based on that information rather than just reacting to direct human input. In many ways, this makes AI agents similar to intelligent digital assistants, but they are capable of performing much more complex tasks over time without needing constant human oversight.

What is an AI Agent

An AI Agent is best thought of as a long-lived, thinking microservice that owns a set of perception, decision-making, and action capabilities rather than simply exposing a single API endpoint. These agents operate continuously, handling tasks over long periods rather than responding to one-time requests.

AI Agents in Kubernetes Environments

In Kubernetes environments, each agent typically runs as a pod or deployment and relies on the cluster network, DNS and possibly a service mesh to talk to tools and other agents.

Frameworks like Kagent help DevOps and platform engineers define and manage AI agents as first-class Kubernetes workloads. This means that instead of using custom, ad-hoc scripts to manually manage AI agents, Continue reading

Translating risk insights into actionable protection: leveling up security posture with Cloudflare and Mastercard

Every new domain, application, website, or API endpoint increases an organization's attack surface. For many teams, the speed of innovation and deployment outpaces their ability to catalog and protect these assets, often resulting in a "target-rich, resource-poor" environment where unmanaged infrastructure becomes an easy entry point for attackers.

Replacing manual, point-in-time audits with automated security posture visibility is critical to growing your Internet presence safely. That’s why we are happy to announce a planned integration that will enable the continuous discovery, monitoring and remediation of Internet-facing blind spots directly in the Cloudflare dashboard: Mastercard’s RiskRecon attack surface intelligence capabilities.

Information Security practitioners in pay-as-you-go and Enterprise accounts will be able to preview the integration in the third quarter of 2026.

Attack surface intelligence can spot security gaps before attackers do

Mastercard’s RiskRecon attack surface intelligence identifies and prioritizes external vulnerabilities by mapping an organization's entire internet footprint using only publicly accessible data. As an outside-in scanner, the solution can be deployed instantly to uncover "shadow IT," forgotten subdomains, and unauthorized cloud servers that internal, credentialed scans often miss. By seeing what an attacker sees in real time, security teams can proactively close security gaps before they can be exploited.

But Continue reading

Tech Bytes: How Statseeker Delivers Critical Network Intelligence (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we hear from Statseeker, a network monitoring company that collects high-fidelity network data to help engineers and administrators get visibility into physical, virtual, and logical interfaces to find problems faster, understand root causes, and spot behaviors and anomalies so you can prevent problems instead of just reacting to them.... Read more »

Active defense: introducing a stateful vulnerability scanner for APIs

Security is traditionally a game of defense. You build walls, set up gates, and write rules to block traffic that looks suspicious. For years, Cloudflare has been a leader in this space: our Application Security platform is designed to catch attacks in flight, dropping malicious requests at the edge before they ever reach your origin. But for API security, defensive posturing isn’t enough. 

That’s why today, we are launching the beta of Cloudflare’s Web and API Vulnerability Scanner. 

We are starting with the most pervasive and difficult-to-catch threat on the OWASP API Top 10: Broken Object Level Authorization, or BOLA. We will add more vulnerability scan types over time, including both API and web application threats.

The most dangerous API vulnerabilities today aren’t generic injection attacks or malformed requests that a WAF can easily spot. They are logic flaws—perfectly valid HTTP requests that meet the protocol and application spec but defy the business logic.

To find these, you can’t just wait for an attack. You have to actively hunt for them.

The Web and API Vulnerability Scanner will be available first for API Shield customers. Read on to learn why we are focused on API security Continue reading

Fixing request smuggling vulnerabilities in Pingora OSS deployments

In December 2025, Cloudflare received reports of HTTP/1.x request smuggling vulnerabilities in the Pingora open source framework when Pingora is used to build an ingress proxy. Today we are discussing how these vulnerabilities work and how we patched them in Pingora 0.8.0.

The vulnerabilities are CVE-2026-2833, CVE-2026-2835, and CVE-2026-2836. These issues were responsibly reported to us by Rajat Raghav (xclow3n) through our Bug Bounty Program.

Cloudflare’s CDN and customer traffic were not affected, our investigation found. No action is needed for Cloudflare customers, and no impact was detected. 

Due to the architecture of Cloudflare’s network, these vulnerabilities could not be exploited: Pingora is not used as an ingress proxy in Cloudflare’s CDN.

However, these issues impact standalone Pingora deployments exposed to the Internet, and may enable an attacker to:

  • Bypass Pingora proxy-layer security controls

  • Desync HTTP request/responses with backends for cross-user hijacking attacks (session or credential theft)

  • Poison Pingora proxy-layer caches retrieving content from shared backends

We have released Pingora 0.8.0 with fixes and hardening. While Cloudflare customers were not affected, we strongly recommend users of the Pingora framework to upgrade as soon as possible.

What was the vulnerability?

The reports Continue reading

Automating netlab-Based Cisco SD-WAN Deployment

We haven’t implemented support for Cisco SD-WAN in netlab yet, and we might never do so; after all, netlab isn’t meant to be a kitchen sink of vendor-specific features. However, having an open-source tool that uses input and output files with standardized encoding (JSON or YAML) makes it easy to develop an independent solution that adds functionality.

That’s exactly what Sebastien d’Argoeuves did: he developed a solution that automates Cisco SD-WAN deployment after the corresponding netlab lab is started, and published it in a GitHub repo. If you’re an SD-WAN fan, you must give it a try ;)

Complexity is a choice. SASE migrations shouldn’t take years.

For years, the cybersecurity industry has accepted a grim reality: migrating to a zero trust architecture is a marathon of misery. CIOs have been conditioned to expect multi-year deployment timelines, characterized by turning screws, manual configurations, and the relentless care and feeding of legacy SASE vendors.

But at Cloudflare, we believe that kind of complexity is a choice, not a requirement. Today, we are highlighting how our partners are proving that what used to take years now takes weeks. By leveraging Cloudflare One, our agile SASE platform, partners like TachTech and Adapture are showing that the path to safe AI and Zero Trust adoption is faster, more seamless, and more programmable than ever before.

Slashing timelines from 18 months to 6 weeks

The traditional migration path for legacy SASE products—specifically the deployment of Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)—often stretches to 18 months for large organizations. For a CIO, that represents a year and a half of technical debt and persistent security gaps.

By contrast, partners like TachTech and Adapture are proving that this marathon of misery is not a technical necessity. By using a unified connectivity cloud, they have compressed these timelines from 18 months Continue reading

Revisiting Time

Today's digital world relies on a consistent view of the time. We achieve this with the Network Time Protocol (NTP). Given the extent of our reliance on an accurate time base it is surprusing that the NTP protocol has no security mechanisms to protect the integrity of time dissemination. Lets look at time, NTP and the recent efforts to add authenticity and temper detection to this protocol.

From the endpoint to the prompt: a unified data security vision in Cloudflare One

Cloudflare One has grown a lot over the years. What started with securing traffic at the network now spans the endpoint and SaaS applications – because that’s where work happens.

But as the market has evolved, the core mission has become clear: data security is enterprise security.

Here’s why. We don’t enforce controls just to enforce controls. We do it because the downstream outcomes are costly: malware, credential theft, session hijacking, and eventually the thing that matters most: sensitive data leaving the organization. What looks like a simple access policy can be the first link in a chain that ends in incident response, customer impact, and reputational damage.

So when you take a step back, most security programs – even the ones that look different on paper – are trying to answer the same questions:

  • Where is sensitive data?

  • Who can access it?

  • What paths exist for it to move somewhere it shouldn’t?

That’s the backbone of our data security vision in Cloudflare One: a single model that follows data across the places it moves, not a pile of siloed controls. That means:

  • Protection in transit (across Internet + SaaS access)

  • Visibility and control at rest (inside SaaS)

  • Enforcement Continue reading

Hedge 298: The 6G Hype Begins

It’s 2026, and it’s time for a new cellular telephone hype cycle: 6G! Doug Dawson from CCG joins Russ and Tom to talk about why 5G is really 4.5G, the proposed changes for 6G, and the challenges higher frequency ranges and bandwidths face in the real world.
 
It’s definitely worth following Doug’s daily post about the telecom and wireless worlds over at Pots and Pans.
 

 
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N4N050: Multicast Fundamentals

Today’s learning adventure is an overview of multicast. Ethan and Holly have invited a guest to share his multicast expertise: Lenny Giuliano, Sr. Distinguished Systems Engineer at HPE Juniper Networks. Lenny guides them through multicast principles and shares examples of where and how it’s used in live networks. He also explains how the OSPF routing... Read more »
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