SOLUTION BRIEF

Protect your Attack Surface
with Everywhere Security
Discover and manage risks before attackers 		find them first

The challenges of ever expanding attack surface
While distributed operations and digital modernization initiatives offer greater
flexibility and scalability, they also present a complex set of security challenges that
require new strategies and controls to ensure robust defense measures across anincreasingly insecure environment. Every Internet-connected resource expands theattack surface: instead of relying on a “castle-and-moat” security model, enterprises
have to protect employees, apps, data, and networks everywhere.

Examples of security threats point solutions fail to address

Multi-channel phishingattempts to engage victims
across multiple communication
channels — email, web links,
cloud collaboration tools,
mobile/SMS, and other
Internet-connected tools.

Business logic-based fraud
exploits how public-facing
APIs are designed. Modern
apps use APIs to automate
certain workflows like accountsetup, logins, and paymenttransactions. However,malicious bots can manipulate
an API’s business logic to steal
credentials through brute force
attacks, deploy hypervolumetric
DDoS attacks, and more.

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AI-related data leakage,
such as when an engineer
accidentally uploadedinternal Samsung sourcecode to ChatGPT, canincrease as organizations
increase their AI usage.
AI risks can also bemalicious; for example, large
language models (LLMs)
can be hijacked to perform
unauthorized actions.

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Problem: Hardware based point solutions with traditional flat networkarchitectures have failed to address the needs of modern businessTraditional network architecture with point
solutions puts everything within the network –users, applications and devices – onto one flat
plane. As cyber threats continue to increasein type and scope, organizations are findingthat traditional security approaches are rapidly
reaching their limits. Historically, the instinctive
response to new threats has been to layer on
additional security solutions. Each emerging
vulnerability or attack vector would be met withanother specialized tool, leading to a patchworkof costly and often complex security controls andworkflows.

As cyberattacks become more sophisticated,
users work from everywhere, and apps are
increasingly in the cloud, these fragmented
solutions can lead to operational silos, gaps
in visibility and protection, and integration
headaches, making it harder for security teams
to manage and orchestrate. As a result of gaps
in security architectures, attackers are able tobreach organizations and inflict substantial harmfollowing four steps:

The challenges of ever expanding attack surface

Solution : Everywhere Security neutralizes the attack cycle
and protects the attack surface
To realize the vision of a modern and distributed
enterprise, organizations need to move awayfrom complex and disparate security systems
and adopt a comprehensive Everywhere
Security approach that delivers secured
access to its workforce across web and multicloud environments, while protecting against
sophisticated cyber threats, securing sensitive

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data, protecting public-facing applications andAPIs, and simplifying operations.
With a unified platform of programmable cloudnative services , Cloudflare helps neutralize
cyber attacks everywhere, across every stageof the attack lifecycle and for any endpoint,
infrastructure or resource.

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1. Minimize attack surface

4. Stop Exfiltration and Exploitation

Cloudflare reduces organizations’ discoverable
and exploitable attack surface, by:Cloudflare help you in regaining visibility andcontrols over your data to stop exfiltration or
fraud and to mitigate exposure risk, by:•Securing web apps and public APIs, andreducing browser supply chain risk.

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Placing Cloudflare’s network in front ofapplications such that accessing self-hosted
apps & private network infrastructure can only
happen via Cloudflare’s global network. Threat
actors cannot impact what they cannot see.

Providing deep, detailed detections with
granular controls over what data is protected,
and how•

Shifting web browsing to the edge rather thanendpoints, insulating users and devices fromweb-based threats

Streamlining customization so that it is easy
for IT and security administrators to design
flexible data loss prevention (DLP) policies —and apply them anywhere•Connecting, scanning, and monitoring SaaS
applications for misconfigurations, improper
data sharing, and sensitive data, as well as
preventing data loss from web applications
and APIs

2. Prevent Initial Compromise
Cloudflare’s security makes it harder for threats,
whether inbound- or web-based, to compromise
any entry point into the organization, by:•Combining external-facing security services(i.e., a web application firewall, DDoS
mitigation, bot management, or API security)with internal-facing security services (i.e.,
cloud email security, secure web gateway) —everywhere•Placing the WAF and all external-facing
services in front of every internal resource(i.e., self-hosted apps and servers) to protect
them from zero-day exploits“With the Cloudflare platform, we’regetting very high-powered, very
technical cybersecurity detection
and protections that take little to noeffort to deploy — that’s especially
important for our organizations
that already struggle with limited
resources.”State of Arizona

3. Eliminate Lateral Movement
To make lateral movement more difficult forattackers, Cloudflare centrally integrates andmanages connectivity and network security(including Internet-native Zero Trust security) to:•Require strict identify verification for every
user and device trying to access resources ona private network, regardless of whether they
are within the network perimeter•Grant context-based, least privilege accessper resource, rather than network-level access•

Reduce or eliminate the need for network
DMZs, which are particularly sensitive to zeroday exploitation

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Unified & composable
platform

Mass scale threat
intelligence

Converge web app & API
protection (WAAP), security
services edge (SSE), email
security domains on platform
and control plane.

Cloudfalre’s threat intel 		is based on a high volume
and variety of global 		traffic, including:•
Limitless interoperability•
between all services andflexible integrations with third•
party tools, so security canadapt quickly to new risks.

20% of the internet
2TB DNS querie/day

A network built to scale
Deliver local capabilities
with global scale:•310+ networks locations•120+ countries•

228 Tbps capacity•13K+ interconnects

8B+ pages crawled every
two weeksEvery security service isavailable for customers to run
This unique real-time visibility in every location, such thatpowers AI/ML-backed models single-pass inspection andpolicy enforcement is always
to defend against emerging
fast, consistent and resilient.
and zero-day threats.

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