Company: NET
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001477333-25-000137
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Company: Cloudflare, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 1A
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 contracts with us, or prioritize the traffic of other parties;

•the occurrence of earthquakes, floods, weather events, fires, power loss, system failures, physical or electronic break-ins, acts of war or terrorism (including the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine or potential consequence of geopolitical tensions in other areas of the world), human error or interference (including by disgruntled employees, former employees, or contractors), and other catastrophic events;

•cyber attacks targeted at us, facilities where our network infrastructure is located, our global telecommunications service provider partners, or the infrastructure of the Internet;

•errors, defects, or performance problems in the deployment, maintenance, and expansion of our network and products, including the software we develop or license from third parties and use to operate our network and products and provide such related products to our customers;

•our customers’ or partners’ improper deployment or configuration of our customers' access to our network and products;

•the maintenance of the APIs in our systems that our partners use to interact with us;

•the failure of our redundancy systems, in the event of a service disruption at one of the facilities hosting our network infrastructure, to redistribute load to other components of our network; and

•the failure of our disaster recovery and business continuity arrangements.

The occurrence of any of these factors, or our inability to efficiently and cost-effectively fix such errors or other problems that may be identified, could damage our reputation, negatively impact our relationship with our customers, or otherwise materially harm our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

Abuse, misuse, or other unauthorized use of our internal network, including network services tools, could cause significant harm to our business and reputation.

Our employees and contractors use our internal network to support the operation of our global network and products for our customers. In addition, in order to provide real-time support to our customers, we have created internal network services tools that are used by our employees and contractors to diagnose and correct customer security, performance, and reliability issues. If any of our employees or contractors were to intentionally abuse our internal network, including these tools, by interfering with or altering our customers’ Internet properties or systems, our customers could be significantly harmed. Similarly, our customers could be harmed if government personnel in any countries in which our employees operate were to pressure our employees, including through the threat of potential prosecution or imprisonment, to use our internal network, including these tools, to access customer data or interfere with or alter our customers' Internet properties or systems. Our employees’ inadvertent misuse