The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the repository for a wealth of knowledge dating back to the nation's founding. The information behind many of the world's greatest inventions ranging from the light bulb, iPhone, Maglev trains to the zipper are housed and protected by the USPTO. A task that is now considerably more difficult as the primary storage medium moves from paper to on-premises and into the cloud.

During every Innovation Week, Cloudflare looks at our network’s performance versus our competitors. In past weeks, we’ve focused on how much faster we are compared to reverse proxies like Akamai, or platforms that sell serverless compute that compares to our Supercloud, like Fastly and AWS. This week, we’d like to provide an update on how we compare to other reverse proxies as well as an update to our application services security product comparison against Zscaler and Netskope.

You’ve heard about it. A lot. But there are quite a few nuances when it comes to how Zero Trust security is defined and discussed. Is it a platform or a principle? It’s one of those terms that’s so widely cited that it has the tendency these days to elicit eye rolls within the cybersecurity industry and to be referred to as a buzzword by those sitting at the cool kids’ lunch table.

Today’s guest is Den Jones, who’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Banyan Security, a startup Zero Trust network access solution (and a CyberArk technology partner). Jones spent almost 19 years at Adobe, followed by a stop at Cisco, before landing at Banyan in 2021. As his Twitter bio tells it, he’s a “Large Scale Zero Trust Deliverer,” which is part of his multifaceted CSO charge.

The 18th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security gave researchers, policymakers, and security professionals a chance to share findings and ideas. Read the highlights.

Vulnerabilities are only one part of the cloud security story. Misconfigurations are still the biggest player in security incidents and, therefore, should be one of the greatest causes for concern in organizations.

“Black Swan” author Nicholas Nassim Taleb once wrote that “intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).” Organizations must take this definition to heart as they incorporate Identity Security intelligence – an essential element of any Zero Trust cybersecurity strategy. Many organizations have dedicated Security Operations Center (SOC) teams responsible for their threat detection, investigation and response efforts.

"Crunchy on the outside, chewy in the middle". That's how Google described its perimeter-based security targeted high-profile companies such as Google, Adobe, Akamai, Rackspace, etc., with said primary reason of modifying the source codes. In response, Google initiated a perimeter-less and trustless access control system now popularly known as BeyondCorp. BeyondCorp comes from a realization that VPN perimeter network security is obsolete.