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Advancing Threat Intelligence: JA4 fingerprints and inter-request signals

Aug 12, 2024 By Alex Bocharov In Cloudflare
For many years, Cloudflare has used advanced fingerprinting techniques to help block online threats, in products like our DDoS engine, our WAF, and Bot Management. For the purposes of Bot Management, fingerprinting characteristic elements of client software help us quickly identify what kind of software is making an HTTP request. It’s an efficient and accurate way to differentiate a browser from a Python script, while preserving user privacy.
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AI, Democracy and The Evolution of Internet Security with Bruce Schneier

Aug 1, 2024 By Cloudflare In Cloudflare
In this episode, host Joao Tome and cryptographer and security technologist and public policy lecturer, Bruce Schneier discuss the evolving landscape of Internet security. They explore AI-related cybersecurity risks, the impact of new technologies on democracy, and the current state of the global Internet. Schneier examines how new technologies are impacting democratic processes worldwide and provides insights on balancing the delicate balance between privacy risks and benefits in the digital age. The conversation also covers the need for updated regulations and the future of post-quantum cryptography.
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Social Media Threats and Regulation with Jenny Reich (Georgetown Law Center)

Aug 1, 2024 By Cloudflare In Cloudflare
From our San Francisco headquarters, we sit down with Jenny Reich, a Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Law Center on National Security. As an expert in social media law, Jenny examines social media's impact on misinformation, cybersecurity and journalism. In this episode taped during the 2024 RSA Conference, Jenny offers her expert perspective on growing congressional pressure for social media regulation, the origins of data breaches from chat rooms, Section 230 and TikTok as the new Gen Z search engine.
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Avoiding downtime: modern alternatives to outdated certificate pinning practices

Jul 29, 2024 By Dina Kozlov In Cloudflare
In today’s world, technology is quickly evolving and some practices that were once considered the gold standard are quickly becoming outdated. At Cloudflare, we stay close to industry changes to ensure that we can provide the best solutions to our customers. One practice that we’re continuing to see in use that no longer serves its original purpose is certificate pinning.
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Making WAF ML models go brrr: saving decades of processing time

Jul 25, 2024 By Alex Bocharov In Cloudflare
We made our WAF Machine Learning models 5.5x faster, reducing execution time by approximately 82%, from 1519 to 275 microseconds! Read on to find out how we achieved this remarkable improvement. WAF Attack Score is Cloudflare's machine learning (ML)-powered layer built on top of our Web Application Firewall (WAF). Its goal is to complement the WAF and detect attack bypasses that we haven't encountered before.
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Application Security report: 2024 update

Jul 11, 2024 By Michael Tremante In Cloudflare
Over the last twelve months, the Internet security landscape has changed dramatically. Geopolitical uncertainty, coupled with an active 2024 voting season in many countries across the world, has led to a substantial increase in malicious traffic activity across the Internet. In this report, we take a look at Cloudflare’s perspective on Internet application security. This report is the fourth edition of our Application Security Report and is an official update to our Q2 2023 report.
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