Alissa Starzak, Global Head of Policy at Cloudflare, about our Project Galileo that is celebrating 10 years. In June 2014, Cloudflare launched Project Galileo, a program which today provides security services, at no cost, to more than 2,600 independent journalists and nonprofit organizations around the world supporting human rights, democracy, and local communities.

In this week’s episode, we have a segment about how we thwarted a threat campaign targeting Ukraine and explain what our team, Cloudforce One, does. Host João Tomé is joined by Blake Darché, Head of Cloudforce One. First, we discuss how Cloudforce One employed proactive defense measures to successfully prevent Russia-aligned threat actor FlyingYeti from launching their latest phishing campaign targeting Ukraine.

In this week’s episode, we feature a segment all about policy, Internet regulation, and the 10th anniversary of our Project Galileo. Host João Tomé is joined by Alissa Starzak, Global Head of Policy at Cloudflare, to discuss policy and regulation in 2024. This conversation was recorded in early May 2024 in our San Francisco office. We begin with Alissa’s impressive background, from the private sector to the CIA, the US Army, and then Cloudflare.

Host João Tomé is joined by two guests. First, we have Ranee Bray, Chief of Staff of our Security Team, discussing how we managed programmatically what we called Code Red — several teams were put together to focus in 30 days on strengthening, validating, and remediating a security incident. Credential management, software hardening, vulnerability management, additional alerting, and other areas were also a part of the “Code Red” effort.

In May 1974, 50 years ago, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn made history with their paper on TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) published by @IEEEorg. Here is a teaser of a longer video (and "This Week in Net" episode) coming soon from our protocol experts, Mark Nottingham (Australia), and Lucas Pardue (UK).

This week, host João Tomé heads to San Francisco for the cybersecurity RSA Conference (May 6-9, 2024). First, we gather insights from attendees, ranging from a cybersecurity student on the brink of graduation to seasoned managers and experts. We also feature Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer discussing the nexus of security and privacy. Plus, insights from Carlos Alberto Silva, a Portuguese venture capitalist with extensive experience in cybersecurity investments.

Dani Grant, co-founder of Jam.dev, talks about her company, how they are trying to fix the bug process for developers, and also discusses how Jam.dev uses Cloudflare. We also go over what a better internet for the future looks like, and the challenges and opportunities in the AI era.

We were at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, hearing different perspectives on the security landscape in 2024. Here's a teaser of some of the things we heard.

"This Week in NET". Episode #59 Host João Tomé (based in Lisbon, Portugal) is joined by our Head of Data Insights, David Belson, based in Boston. We discuss our recent Q1 2024 Internet disruption summary blog post. There were submarine cable failures that impacted 13 countries in Africa. We also address technical issues with RPKI, DNS, and DNSSEC that disrupted connectivity for subscribers across multiple network providers.

Today, IT teams need to securely connect everyone and everything everywhere. But the cloud, SaaS, Internet, and on-prem domains are intrinsically different and painfully disconnected. Visibility and control get harder, and the tools used to tame the complexity just add more complexity.