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 traffic. Cloudflare API Shield provides many capabilities for API visibility, security, abuse protection, and management. Cloudflare API Shield already had many capabilities including API discovery, API analytics, positive security model with mTLS and schema validation, intelligent custom rate limiting, volumetric abuse protection, and sensitive data protection. Now Cloudflare has recently added the capability to add and manage API endpoints and gain visibility to API performance and errors while also providing anomaly detection alerts. Continue reading
Cloudflare API Shield Adds API Endpoint Management and Metrics
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Stop Credential Stuffing Attacks with Cloudflare Bot Management
Cloudflare Bot Management – Stopping Credential Stuffing Attack
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 examples of some of these capabilities in a recent Cloudflare webinar. Continue reading
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Tagged ahmed, anomaly detection, behavioral analysis, better Internet, Bot Management, botmanagement, bots, CAPTCHA, CAPTCHAs, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare Managed Challenge, Cloudflare traffic sequence, Cloudflare WAF, credential stuffing, finger printing, heuristics, humair, Humair Ahmed, machine learning, Managed Challenge, price scraping, security, WAF, Webinar
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Webinar Recording: The newest approach: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs [Video]
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.
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Tagged ahmed, anomaly detection, behavioral analysis, better Internet, Bot Management, botmanagement, bots, CAPTCHA, CAPTCHAs, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare Managed Challenge, Cloudflare WAF, credential stuffing, credential stuffing attack, finger printing, heuristics, humair, Humair Ahmed, machine learning, Managed Challenge, security, WAF, Webinar
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Webinar: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs
Register now for our upcoming webinar (Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022) on stopping bots without CAPTCHAs. Continue reading
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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
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Bot Management is More Than Just Captchas!
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 bots used for malicious purposes are more sophisticated than the typical attacks folks usually mitigate via general WAF policies and methods such as rate limiting, black holing traffic, and blacklisting IPs. Continue reading
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Tagged Analytics, anomaly detection, behavioral analysis, Bot Management, Bot Management Analytics, bots, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare Bot Management Analytics, finger printing, heuristics, machine learning, security, WAF
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Cloudflare WAF – Managed Rules are a Life Saver!
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! 
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Tagged 0-day, 0-day exploits, 0day, 0day exploits, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Managed Rules, Cloudflare threat intelligence, Cloudflare WAF, emerging threats, exploits, Managed Rules, security, threat intelligence, WAF
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Web3 and Cloudflare Web3 Gateways Walkthrough [Video]
Checkout my latest video on Web3 and Cloudflare Web3 Gateways below or directly on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here.
Cloudflare Web3 Gateways include IPFS Gateway and Ethereum Gateway. In this video I walkthrough what Web3 is and the motivation behind Web3. I also discuss how Cloudflare Web3 Gateways work and their respective benefits. The presentation is based on the Web3 and Cloudflare Web3 Gateways’ whitepapers I’ve written: Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway Whitepaper and Cloudflare IPFS Gateway Whitepaper.
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Posted in Applications, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cloudflare, Cloudflare, Cryptocurrency, DApps, DApps, Ether, Ethereum, Ethereum, IPFS, Network Architecture, Networking, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Web Development, Web3
Tagged blockchain, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway, Cloudflare IPFS Gateway, Cloudflare Web3, Cloudflare Web3 Gateways, Dapp, Dapps, Decentralization, Ethereum, Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum Gateway, humair, Humair Ahmed, InterPlanetary File System, IPFS, IPFS Gateway, Trustlessness, Web3, Web3 Gateways
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Cloudflare CDN Walkthrough – Benefits, Configuration, Traffic Flow, and Performance
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 I walkthrough some of the details of Cloudflare CDN Benefits, Configuration, Traffic Flow, and Performance that I wrote about in the Cloudflare CDN Reference Architecture.
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Tagged Anycast CDN, Anycast Network, Argo, Argo Smart Routing, Argo Tiered Cache, Argo Tiered Cache Topologies, cache, CDN, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Anycast Network, Cloudflare Argo, Cloudflare Cache, Cloudflare CDN, Cloudflare CDN Reference Architecture, Cloudflare CDN Video, Cloudflare Global Anycast Network, Cloudflare Global Network, Cloudflare Network, Cloudflare Smart Routing, Cloudflare Tiered Cache, Cloudflare Tiered Cache Topologies, Content Delivery Network, networking, Reference Architecture, security, Smart Routing, Smart Tiered Cache Topology, Tiered Cache, Tiered Cache Topologies
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Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway Whitepaper
Close on the heels of publishing the Cloudflare IPFS Gateway Whitepaper, the CLoudflare Ethereum Gateway Whitepaper is now published and available to download from the Cloudflare Resource Hub. This whitepaper walks through details of Ethereum and Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway. You can now download and read the Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway Whitepaper to learn more. Feel free to provide any feedback or reach out if you have questions. Continue reading
Webinar Recording: Introduction to Cloudflare Web3 Gateways [Video]
If you missed the Cloudflare Webinar on March 9th where I presented on IPFS, Ethereum, and Cloudflare Web3 Gateways, you can now watch the recording by registering here or simply watch on YouTube here, I’ve also embedded the video below. Continue reading
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Tagged blockchain, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway, Cloudflare IPFS Gateway, Cloudflare Web3, Cloudflare Web3 Gateways, Cloudflare Web3 Webinar, Cloudflare Webinar, Dapp, Dapps, Decentralization, Ethereum, Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum Gateway, humair, Humair Ahmed, InterPlanetary File System, IPFS, IPFS Gateway, Trustlessness, Web3, Web3 Gateways, Webinar
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