By Bashar Bashaireh, Managing Director & Head of Middle East and Türkiye at Cloudflare Historically IT operations and security teams focused mostly on managing their organisation’s on-prem environment. But as business requirements changed, customer bases became global, and remote work took root, these technology teams were handed responsibility across moreRead More…
Bashar Bashaireh, Managing Director & Head of Middle East and Türkiye at Cloudflare, explores how expanding IT responsibilities have led to reduced control, increased risks, and higher costs. He introduces Cloudflare’s Connectivity CloudRead More…
Cloudflare has announced its 2024 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network, which is one of the largest in the world. With a 280 terabit per second network located across over 230 cities worldwide, serving 19% ofRead More…
Cloudflare has published its State of Application Security 2024 Report. Findings from this year’s report reveal that security teams are struggling to keep pace with the risks posed by organisations’ dependency on modern applications—the technology that underpins all of today’s most used sites. The report underscores that the volume ofRead More…
Cloudflare is celebrating the tenth anniversary of Project Galileo, a free offering to protect at-risk public interest groups from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and keep them online. These vulnerable targets can include minority rights organisations, human rights defenders, independent journalists, and democracy protection programmes. To mark the anniversary, Cloudflare isRead More…
When Cloudflare launched Regional Services in June of 2020, the concept of data locality and data sovereignty were very much rooted in European regulations. Bashar Bashaireh, Managing Director of Middle East & Türkiye at Cloudflare explains, “Fast forward to today, and the pressure to localise data persists: Several countries have laws requiringRead More…
Cloudflare has announced the acquisition of BastionZero, a Zero Trust infrastructure access platform, to further strengthen remote access to core IT systems for customers of Cloudflare One, the company’s secure access service edge (SASE) platform. Combined with existing Cloudflare One capabilities, the acquisition of BastionZero gives IT and security teams Zero Trust controls for infrastructure like servers,Read More…
Cloudflare has announced its 2024 Q1 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network, which is one of the largest in the world. Key findings 2024 started with a bang. Cloudflare’s defense systems automatically mitigated 4.5 millionRead More…
