Company: NET
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 10-K
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Company: Cloudflare, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 10-K
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 support calls with state and local governments participating in the Athenian Project, and provided cyber threat briefings for more than 300 election officials across the country.

•Cloudflare for Campaigns: Since 2020, the Cloudflare for Campaigns program has provided security services to help political campaigns and state political parties in the United States and around the world defend against cyber attacks and election interference. We allow any eligible campaign to access a variety of our security solutions, including web application firewall, and DDoS protection, as well as internal data management and security controls.

•Project Cybersafe Schools: We launched Project Cybersafe Schools in 2023 as part of the White House's Back to School Safely: K-12 Cybersecurity Summit. We provide eligible school districts with Zero Trust security solutions that help minimize exposure to harmful online content and common cyber threats, such as phishing and credential harvesting, for free and with no time limit. Currently, more than 131 school districts in 30 U.S. states participate in the Project Cybersafe Schools program.

Our Technology

Our distributed and proprietary network is the core of our technology and enables us to move data seamlessly from nearly any point on earth in a fast, efficient, and reliable manner. Our network has been built from the ground up as a single software stack we developed that runs our products in more than 335 cities and over 125 countries worldwide. This allows us to scale quickly while offering a wide range of products and simultaneously lowering operating expenses.

Efficient Serverless Network Design

We have developed a single software stack that is responsible for all of our products. We have been able to efficiently scale our network by building it with commodity hardware components that are powered by our proprietary software. This integrated stack has made scaling, debugging, optimizing, and operating our network and products easier and cheaper. It also allows us to deploy changes across our entire worldwide network in a matter of seconds. In addition, we embed encryption chips into the motherboards of our servers that are designed to preclude anyone else from running unauthorized software on our equipment. This allows us to securely and quickly expand our infrastructure far and wide in order to offer the best service and drive down operating costs.

Our serverless network design allows each individual machine in our global network to run our software suite and provide our products. We have built coordination software that ties together these thousands of machines into a single global network that allows us to efficiently route traffic to different physical locations and to individual machines. This enables us to maximize utilization of our commodity hardware and