Cloudflare’s newly launched One Data Protection Suite offers advanced security solutions for online, SaaS, and private applications. This unified platform from global CDN provider Cloudflare would allow users to streamline cloud compliance, minimize data exposure and code loss, and protect developer and AI environments, ensuring performance and reliability.
“Data protection shouldn’t have to add to the already difficult work that organizations conduct,” said Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince.
To stay competitive, simplify their environments, and relieve the load on their end users, modern enterprises must abandon outdated technologies, state Cloudflare. But the move to cutting-edge, developing technologies has brought with it new dangers as well as the difficult chore of protecting confidential information and intellectual property.CISOs would require a foolproof, comprehensive strategy to secure their entire corporate IT stack, including the ever-increasing volume of data that is present on employee devices, SaaS and cloud applications, and AI tools. According to Cloudflare, this is necessary to address the current landscape and reduce the attack surface.
With an emphasis on simplicity, the Cloudflare One Data Protection Suite would extend thorough data controls to every facet of an organization’s internal and external applications. This suite, which is built natively on Cloudflare’s global CDN network, would enable businesses of all sizes to do the following:
- Enable programmable network architecture - Which would enable businesses to swiftly adopt new security standards and protocols and build new capabilities. This may guarantee that data protection controls cover contemporary use cases, such as safeguarding code in generative AI.
- Consolidate controls and data visibility into a single platform - Administrators may transfer traffic to Cloudflare for enforcement via a single management interface and a variety of customizable methods, including as clientless ZTNA and RBI installations, direct or virtual interconnects, SD-WAN partnerships, and API-based scans.
- Use single-pass inspection to enforce data protection controls - Cloudflare's network locations, which cover over 300 cities in over 100 countries, provide dependable, non-intrusive, and quick policy enforcement. This finally implies that effectiveness and scalability are allowed by data restrictions, which never interfere with end-user productivity.
- Customize detections - Customers will have the freedom to identify data that is peculiar to their business and specified in bespoke datasets thanks to DLP precise data match. For source code files and protected health information (PHI), additional preset data detection profiles are provided.
- Integrate DLP and CASB powered by APIs - Users may find sensitive data both in and out of the line. Most online collaboration, productivity, and code repository applications used by businesses will be covered through integrations.
- Provide risk-based data protection - Utilizing signals from all throughout Cloudflare One, including a user's actions, posture, and settings, behavioral user risk ratings are used to restrict access to data and applications.
“The most precious asset of a company is its data, which must be protected at all costs. Breach may be fatal to a firm because to the long-term consequences of operational loss, legal troubles, and related expenses. Furthermore, it doesn’t even take into consideration the harm to one’s reputation that comes with it,” said Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. “Data protection shouldn’t have to add to the already difficult work that organizations conduct. Cloudflare provides a unique network architecture so enterprises can tackle anything from AI exposure to code leaks all in one unified platform.”
“Today, Cloudflare One helps prevent our users from sharing sensitive data and code with tools like ChatGPT and Bard, enabling us to take advantage of AI safely,” said Tanner Randolph, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Applied Systems, a SaaS technology provider for insurance brokers. “Over the past few years, Cloudflare has been a critical partner in our digital transformation efforts and has helped us consolidate security controls across our users, applications, and networks. Going forward, we are excited for Cloudflare’s continued innovations to protect data, and in particular, their vision and roadmap for services like DLP and CASB.”
