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How the April 28, 2025, power outage in Portugal and Spain impacted Internet traffic and connectivity

A massive power outage struck significant portions of Portugal and Spain at 10:34 UTC on April 28, grinding transportation to a halt, shutting retail businesses, and otherwise disrupting everyday activities and services. Parts of France were also reportedly impacted by the power outage.

Targeted by 20.5 million DDoS attacks, up 358% year-over-year: Cloudflare's 2025 Q1 DDoS Threat Report

Welcome to the 21st edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Published quarterly, this report offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare network. In this edition, we focus on the first quarter of 2025.

Sunil Pai about Agents, AI, and New Developers

Clip of the show/podcast with Sunil Pai. About exploring AI, agents, developers, and how AI is helping developers, and turning more people into developers. Sunil is the founder of PartyKit (an open source deployment platform for AI agents), acquired by Cloudflare in 2024. And he’s a Principal Systems Engineer that is building AI agents at Cloudflare.

5 Elements for a Robust Security Strategy GovLoop and Anish Patel

Agencies are tasked with protecting their networks from cyberattacks, but there is no longer a perimeter that makes it easier to defend. Instead agencies need to rethink how they secure every device connecting to an agency network. Considering the number of connected devices — hundreds of thousands — it's best to ensure sound security. Specifically, you’ll learn.

Protecting Public Sector Websites and the critical systems behind them: link to the hosted On-Demand

Your agency’s website is more than just a landing page—it’s where constituents find information, apply for services, and engage with their government. It’s your digital front door. But security doesn’t stop at the homepage. Behind every online form, data portal, and public-facing interface, there’s a complex infrastructure that needs just as much protection.

Reduce Server Failures with Cloudflare Load Balancing

Want a faster, more reliable website? Learn how Cloudflare’s Load Balancing ensures optimal performance by distributing traffic across multiple servers worldwide. Discover how Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) minimizes downtime and reduces latency by routing users to the nearest, healthiest server.

Introducing a new Application Security experience

Welcome to Cloudflare Security Week 2025! During this year's Security Week, we are boosting security with AI-driven insights, better threat detection, and stronger protections against emerging risks. Our aim is to empower customers with more intuitive and user-friendly solutions to protect their data and applications in an increasingly complex environment. In this episode, tune in for a conversation with Cloudflare's Jessica Tarasoff, Product Design Lead, and Pete Thomas, Senior Manager, Product Design.

Managing sensitive data exposure in AWS and GCP using Cloudflare

Welcome to Cloudflare Security Week 2025! During this year's Security Week, we are boosting security with AI-driven insights, better threat detection, and stronger protections against emerging risks. Our aim is to empower customers with more intuitive and user-friendly solutions to protect their data and applications in an increasingly complex environment. In this episode, tune in for a conversation with Cloudflare's Alex Dunbrack, Senior Product Manager, and Noelle Kagan, Senior Manager, Product Management.

Enhanced Cloudflare Access: private hostnames, IP apps, and reusable policies

Welcome to Cloudflare Security Week 2025! During this year's Security Week, we are boosting security with AI-driven insights, better threat detection, and stronger protections against emerging risks. Our aim is to empower customers with more intuitive and user-friendly solutions to protect their data and applications in an increasingly complex environment. In this episode, tune in for a conversation with Cloudflare's Kenny Johnson, Principal Product Manager.

All About Cloudflare's Developer Week 2025 (AI, Vibe Coding, Agents, and More)

This episode is all about our second innovation week of the year: Developer Week. Host João Tomé is joined in person at Cloudflare’s London office by Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations, and Craig Dennis, Developer Educator. There’s a lot to go through — new tools and announcements launched during this April week. The vibe in the developer world, with AI, agents, and code-first energy, is contagious. More people, even non-developers, are now empowered to build their own tools and applications.

A global virtual private cloud for building secure cross-cloud apps on Cloudflare Workers

Today, we’re sharing a preview of a new feature that makes it easier to build cross-cloud apps: Workers VPC. Workers VPC is our take on the traditional virtual private cloud (VPC), modernized for a network and compute that isn’t tied to a single cloud region. And we’re complementing it with Workers VPC Private Links to make building across clouds easier.

Introducing Cloudflare Secrets Store (Beta): secure your secrets, simplify your workflow

Every cloud platform needs a secure way to store API tokens, keys, and credentials — welcome, Cloudflare Secrets Store! Today, we are very excited to announce and launch Secrets Store in beta. We built Cloudflare Secrets Store to help our customers centralize management, improve security, and restrict access to sensitive values on the Cloudflare platform.

AI-powered attacks are getting more sophisticated.

AI-powered attacks are getting more sophisticated. However, AI-powered defense is evolving even faster. At Cloudflare, AI is already detecting and stopping threats faster than human researchers ever could. How? Machine learning models analyze millions of attack patterns in real-time, identifying anomalies and blocking threats before they spread. AI detects novel attack patterns before they even make headlines AI reduces false positives, helping security teams focus on real risks AI learns from past incidents, adapting faster than traditional security tools.

Cloudflare acquires Outerbase to expand database and agent developer experience capabilities

I’m thrilled to share that Cloudflare has acquired Outerbase. This is such an amazing opportunity for us, and I want to explain how we got here, what we’ve built so far, and why we are so excited about becoming part of the Cloudflare team.

Cloudflare's commitment to CISA Secure-By-Design pledge: delivering new kernels, faster

As cyber threats continue to exploit systemic vulnerabilities in widely used technologies, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) produced best practices for the technology industry with their Secure-by-Design pledge. Cloudflare proudly signed this pledge on May 8, 2024, reinforcing our commitment to creating resilient systems where security is not just a feature, but a foundational principle.

Learn more about building with Cloudflare - with Craig Dennis

As part of our "This Week in NET" show/podcast, Craig Dennis, Developer Educator at Cloudflare, walks us through Workers — our developer platform — and some of the things both developers and non-developers can build with it. A few highlights ahead of Developer Week (April 7–11, 2025), where new features and tools — including AI and AI agents — will be announced.

Honoring Dave Täht and his contributions to a better Internet (video calls included)

Dave Täht died this week (August 11, 1965 – April 1, 2025), and Tom Strickx, Principal Network Engineer at Cloudflare, honors his contributions to help build a better Internet. Dave Täht was an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. Without his work, FQ-CoDel wouldn't exist — and low-latency networking, from Wi-Fi to Starlink and video calls, would likely be worse today.

Cloud Security in 2025 What CISOs Need to Prepare For with João Pedro Gonçalves and Michael Tremante

In this episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast with Cloudflare, host Mark Dembo is joined by João Pedro Gonçalves, CISO and Managing Director at EQT Group, and Michael Tremante, Senior Director of Product at Cloudflare. Together, they explore critical security trends for 2025, from AI-powered threats to regulatory changes to practical strategies for balancing protection with usability. What You’ll Learn.

Cloudflare Bot Management Demo

Cloudflare applies a layered detection approach to Bot Management with several detection engines that cumulatively impact the bot score. Bot scores can be used in WAF rules to create granular security policies. This demo highlights how Cloudflare can help with several use cases including web scraping, account takeover, and AI bot protection. Additionally, Cloudflare's AI Assistant, Cloudy, is used to review additional bot analytics and create a WAF rule based on bot score and additional criteria.

One of the biggest cybersecurity myths out there?

One of the biggest cybersecurity myths out there? VPNs equal complete privacy. Here's what you need to know: A VPN hides your IP address, but it doesn't make you anonymous. Your VPN provider still has your data and logs and can hand them over if requested. Websites still track you through cookies, fingerprints, and browser activity. On the latest episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast, João Pedro Gonçalves and Michael Tremante break down why VPNs aren't the silver bullet they're marketed to be.