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In this end-of-year episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Omer Yoachimik, Senior Product Manager for DDoS Protection at Cloudflare, to break down the realities of the 2025 DDoS threat landscape — and what’s coming next.

Cybercriminals don't care about borders. So why do we have 12 different regulatory frameworks for the same threat? Olivier Busolini, Group Head of Information Security at Mashreq Bank, voiced the frustration every global CISO feels: "In every country, I have 12 countries at Mashreq. In every country, there is a slightly different or sometimes vastly different requirement that I have to abide to.".

In this special Year in Review episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by David Belson to break down the Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review. Together, they explore what Cloudflare’s global network reveals about how the Internet evolved over the past year — from the rapid rise of AI crawlers and agent traffic, to record-breaking DDoS attacks, the spread of post-quantum encryption, and the growing impact of government-directed shutdowns and outages.

See how Cloudflare One helps you manage the security posture of GenAI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. This demo highlights: API integrations: Available for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, and most popular SaaS apps 0:18 Posture findings: Scan for misconfigurations, unauthorized activity, and other security issues 0:50 Shadow AI discovery: Find what third-party AI apps access your SaaS tools 1:15.

See how Cloudflare One helps protect sensitive data when users interact with generative AI apps. This demo highlights secure access service edge (SASE) capabilities including: Data loss prevention (DLP) detections for sensitive content (e.g., PII, source code, financials) 0:22 Detections for data at rest in AI tools like ChatGPT 1:00 Guardrails for user prompts based on intent / topic to block jailbreak attempts, code abuse, PII requests, and other risky behavior 2:12.

See how Cloudflare One helps restore visibility and controls over unsanctioned use of AI tools. This demo highlights secure access service edge (SASE) capabilities including: Shadow AI reporting: Analyze how AI apps are used across your environment 0:10 Application confidence scores: Evaluate the risks posed by specific AI apps 1:10 Access controls: Allow, block, redirect, isolate, and more based on an app’s approval status 1:45.

See how Cloudflare One simplifies access controls across both generative AI and agentic AI communication — all from one unified secure access service edge (SASE) dashboard. This demo highlights: Securing human-to-AI connections by as blocking or redirecting from unapproved tools and isolating AI apps to protect data (0:09) Streamlining access to MCP servers for AI-to-resource connections via Cloudflare’s MCP server portals (1:10)

In this clip from This Week in NET, Systems Engineer Steve James gives a hands-on demo of a real-time multiplayer chess game running inside ChatGPT, built with the Agents SDK and Cloudflare Workers. Beyond the demo, we talk about what developers can build today with AI agents — and why, given the pace of innovation, it’s genuinely hard to predict what applications and experiences will emerge in 2026.

In this episode of This Week in NET, we talk with Daniele Molteni, Director of Product Management for Cloudflare’s WAF, about how Cloudflare responded within hours to a newly disclosed React Server Components vulnerability — deploying global protection before the public advisory was even released.

In this special compilation episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast with Cloudflare, Lia Kazandzhieva, Marketing Campaign Manager at Cloudflare revisits the most impactful conversations from 2025 with leading CISOs and security experts to distill the lessons that will define 2026 and beyond. What You'll Learn.

Routing is the process of selecting the best path for data to travel across a network to its destination. But what if routing could be smarter and faster? Enter Cloudflare Smart Shield + Argo Smart Routing, which optimizes data paths to enhance both speed and reliability. Discover what smart routing is and how it can revolutionize your network performance: Key benefits of Argo Smart Routing: Want to dive deeper into routing and smart routing? Explore these resources in Cloudflare’s Learning Center.

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In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé sits down with Stephanie Cohen, Cloudflare’s Chief Strategy Officer, for a candid conversation about AI, content creators, financial services, partnerships, and the future of the Internet. Stephanie shares how Cloudflare is helping keep the Internet open and resilient — from giving creators transparency and control over AI scraping, to enabling new models of agentic commerce through partnerships with Visa and Mastercard, to empowering organizations of all sizes through Cloudflare’s global network.

Hiring in 2025: Is the person you hired even real? Deepfakes resumes. Outsourced interviews. Candidates landing jobs they never intended to do. We've moved from KYC to KYE, and organizations haven't caught up yet. In the latest episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast, we explore how attackers are weaponizing the job market with Vladimir Krupnov and Blake Darché. For anyone in hiring, HR tech, or security leadership, this is a must-listen.

Learn how Cloudflare helps you secure generative and agentic AI everywhere with visibility, controls, and data protections.

Some of the most successful cyberattacks aren't even that sophisticated. A misconfigured Zoom tenant. A forgotten 2FA. A Salesforce setting was left wide open. The problem isn't always the platform, but how we use it. Vladimir Krupnov and Blake Darché joined us in the latest episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast to unpack the myth that you need advanced tools to breach a system.