Category Archives: Security

The newest approach: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs [Video]

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Humair

Checkout the below video on Cloudflare Bot Management and ridding the Internet from CAPTCHAs where I also show a demo and walk through features/capabilities. Watch directly below or on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here. Follow me on Twitter: @Humair_Ahmed

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Cloudflare API Shield Adds API Endpoint Management and Metrics

Posted on October 9, 2022 by Humair

A growing proportion of web traffic is API traffic with many sources now showing API traffic being more than 50% of total web traffic. Cloudflare has prior reported that 54% of the traffic on the global Cloudflare network is API … Continue reading →

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Stop Credential Stuffing Attacks with Cloudflare Bot Management

Posted on September 21, 2022 by Humair

Cloudflare Bot Management can better detect and help mitigate malicious bots using multiple detection mechanisms like heuristics, behavioral analysis/anomaly detection, machine learning, and finger printing against a massive global volume of data. My colleague and I recently discussed and showed … Continue reading →

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Webinar Recording: The newest approach: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs [Video]

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Humair

Had a great turnout for bot management webinar. Watch the recording to see how Cloudflare is moving the Internet away from CAPTCHAs and see it in action. Follow me on Twitter: @Humair_Ahmed

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Webinar: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Humair

Posted in Cloudflare, Cloudflare, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Webinars, Networking, Security, Tech Events, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing | Tagged ahmed, anomaly detection, behavioral analysis, better Internet, Bot Management, botmanagement, bots, CAPTCHA, CAPTCHAs, Cloudflare, Cloudflare WAF, finger printing, heuristics, humair, Humair Ahmed, machine learning, security, WAF, Webinar | Leave a comment

Bot Management is More Than Just Captchas!

Posted on September 4, 2022 by Humair

I’ve been really digging into the Cloudflare Bot Management capabilities and applying it on several sites. Love what Cloudflare is doing here – moving the Internet away from captchas! A true Bot Management solution is more than just captchas! Many … Continue reading →

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Cloudflare WAF – Managed Rules are a Life Saver!

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Humair

Doing some testing with Cloudflare WAF yesterday; very impressed. Cloudflare Managed Rules are continuously being updated, and protects customers from emerging threats and 0-day exploits. Can be a real life saver! Follow me on Twitter: @Humair_Ahmed

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Cloudflare CDN Walkthrough – Benefits, Configuration, Traffic Flow, and Performance

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Humair

Checkout my latest video on Cloudflare CDN embedded below or directly on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here. The Cloudflare CDN is SaaS that helps address the challenges customers face around latency, performance, availability, redundancy, security, and costs. In this video … Continue reading →

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Cloudflare CDN Reference Architecture

Posted on March 18, 2022 by Humair

Just published! One of the first items I worked on at Cloudflare was the Cloudflare CDN; reoccurring pattern while working on this – learned a lot researching, playing with the technology, and working with some smart folks at Cloudflare! Download … Continue reading →

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Nutanix Beam – Chargeback and Tracking Spend Across Clouds

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Humair

My prior post on Nutanix Beam, Optimize Cost Across Public and Private Clouds with Nutanix Beam, provided a brief intro and described some of the basic functionality of Beam and how it can be used to define a cost control … Continue reading →

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