Cloudflare, Inc, the leading connectivity cloud company, announced it is making several critical security tools available for free, including access to its comprehensive Zero Trust Platform, Cloudflare One. By leveraging the power of these tools, security teams can now efficiently gain visibility into and assess the overall health of their organization without the stress of expensive vendor renewals or shrinking security budgets. Customers will be able to combat some of today’s biggest threats – automatically and by default – including credential leaks, supply chain attacks , and attacks on the technology underlying communication between today’s most widely used websites and apps: APIs.
One of the biggest obstacles to securing an organization is the cost of purchasing the tools needed to defend against today’s sophisticated threats. The services required to do so have traditionally been accessible only to organizations large enough to afford both the technology and the teams to manage it. For most other organizations, negotiating renewals from security vendors is difficult, and it’s becoming increasingly expensive. This is one of the biggest problems CISOs face. In 2024, software inflation is expected to reach 12.3% , suggesting a sharp increase in renewal rates. But these price increases are not indicative of added value in the tools and services they offer. As the attack surface grows—new vulnerabilities are discovered every day, and new groups of threat actors, tactics, and malware emerge—security teams need access to effective protections that aren’t overpriced or lock them into relationships that are difficult and costly to exit.
” For every dollar a customer spends, we should give them back 10x. But most security vendors raise their prices every year without providing any value,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. ” By providing these features for free, organizations no longer have to choose between saving money and protecting their most sensitive data and services. And by making these features more widely available through our free plan, Cloudflare can make them more effective and ultimately make the internet a safer place for everyone.”
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Now organizations of all sizes and industries can protect themselves from today’s threats – backed by the power of Cloudflare’s global network – enabling them to:
- Greater visibility across environments: Complexity is the number one concern of every CISO. Keeping an eye on risk is harder than ever as rapid innovation leads to a proliferation of software tools and deficiencies in IT environments. Cloudflare HTTP, Security, and DNS Analytics provide a centralized view of cross-cutting traffic trends in a given environment – for example, insights into key statistics across dimensions such as countries and analytics on DNS queries, a user’s request to a service, troubleshooting, or identifying patterns and trends.
- Automatically detect suspicious login attempts: Nearly half of all breaches are due to stolen credentials that are reused across multiple websites. Cloudflare Leaked Credentials Checks helps detect suspicious login attempts where a fraudster might try to use a leaked password from one website to access others. This is based on a database of over 15 billion compromised passwords and usernames and a partnership with Have I Been PWNED .
- Detect and stop API abuse: The world runs on APIs – our phones, smartwatches, banking systems, and shopping websites all rely on APIs to communicate. But security problems arise when bugs inadvertently expose sensitive information or developers publish APIs that security teams aren’t aware of. Cloudflare Schema Validation prevents APIs from accidentally exposing information they shouldn’t.
SOURCE: Businesswire