Personally, it’s exciting and satisfying to see how many people work at and with Cloudflare to pursue incredible projects and initiatives, creating real positive impact in the world.
Some of those amazing and inspiring impacts are displayed here…
Cloudflare Impact#
Our mission is to help build a better Internet. We believe a better Internet can be not only a force for good but also an engine of global sustainability. – cloudflare.com/impact
Here you can also find interesting Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) resources, as well as exciting initiatives like:
Cloudflare’s Commitments#
Cloudflare is proud to participate in and contribute commitments to the Summit for Democracy 2023 because we believe that everyone should have access to an Internet that is faster, more reliable, more private, and more secure. – Blog Post
Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet, and we are committed to doing this with ethics and integrity in everything that we do. This commitment extends beyond our own actions, to third parties acting on our behalf. – Blog Post
Cloudflare committed to developing a human rights policy in order to ensure that the responsibility to respect human rights is embedded throughout our business functions. – Blog Post
Policies, technologies, and certifications that help us earn customer trust – The Cloudflare Trust Hub
Cloudflare’s Privacy Edge#
Privacy Edge – Code Auditability, Privacy Gateway, Privacy Proxy, and Cooperative Analytics – a suite of products that make it easy for site owners and developers to build privacy into their products, by default. – Blog Post
- Privacy Gateway: A lightweight proxy that encrypts request data and forwards it through an IP-blinding relay.
- Code Auditability: A solution to verifying that code delivered in your browser hasn’t been tampered with.
- Private Proxy: A proxy that offers the protection of a VPN, built natively into application architecture.
- Cooperative Analytics: A multi-party computation approach to measurement and analytics based on an emerging distributed aggregation protocol.
Cloudflare Data Localization Suite#
We introduced our Data Localization Suite (DLS) in 2020 to help customers navigate a data protection landscape that focuses more and more on data localization. – Blog Post
Check out my Blog Post for more information on DLS.
Cloudflare Research#
Cloudflare Research embarks upon projects that help shape the future of the Internet at large and the systems that drive it. – research.cloudflare.com/projects
Some very interesting research areas and solutions to point out are the Geo Key Manager, Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH), IsBGPSafeYet?, Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), and more…
Free Tools, Guides, and more#
1.1.1.1 is a public DNS resolver that provides a fast and private way to browse the Internet. – Website
Broader Zero Trust adoption remains complicated. To help, we’ve built a vendor-neutral roadmap for the entire Zero Trust journey, covering these five projects and others like them. Some will take far longer than a few days, but the roadmap can provide greater clarity into what Zero Trust adoption means. – zerotrustroadmap.org
Cloudflare Radar is a hub that showcases global Internet traffic, attack, and technology trends and insights. – radar.cloudflare.com
Cloudflare powers over 20 million Internet properties, including world-changing open-source projects. – Cloudflare Open Source
And many more…
Cloudflare Transparency Reports#
An essential part of earning and maintaining the trust of our customers is being transparent about the requests we receive from law enforcement and other governmental entities. To this end, Cloudflare publishes semi-annual updates to our Transparency Report on the requests we have received to disclose information about our customers. – cloudflare.com/transparency
League of Entropy#
The League of Entropy is a collaborative project to provide a verifiable, decentralized randomness beacon. – cloudflare.com/leagueofentropy
Disclaimer#
Educational purposes only. This blog post is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cloudflare. Italic text are publicly available quotes. Hopefully this blog post also inspired you to create a positive impact around yourself and your community.