Cloudflare Claims Completion of Zero-Trust Platform

Cloudflare added several new capabilities to its zero-trust and secure access service edge (SASE) platform, called Cloudflare One. Included in the additions are email security protection, data loss prevention, cloud access security broker (CASB), and private network discovery. Cloudflare added several new capabilities to its zero-trust and secure access service edge (SASE) platform, called Cloudflare One. Included in the additions are email security protection, data loss prevention, cloud access security broker (CASB), and private network discovery. “We have the complete zero-trust solution now,” Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming told SDxCentral, adding that Cloudflare views SASE as part of the solution. Cloudflare officially entered the SASE market with Cloudflare One back in October 2020. The platform included the company’s Access zero-trust network access (ZTNA) and Gateway secure web gateway (SWG) products, Warp gateway client, next-generation firewall, and remote browser isolation. Cloudflare One provides one dashboard for all the zero-trust capabilities, the vendor claims in a blog. “Customers are looking for how do they, in a software manner, control their network, control their applications, control the access their employees have,” Graham-Cumming said. All of the Cloudflare One capabilities are “converging on a single control plane,” he added. The Cloudflare One platform, including its SASE capabilities, is built natively into Cloudflare’s global network, which spans more than 270 cities in over 100 countries, the vendor claims. Plus, the vendor’s other security services such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks protection also run on its network, Graham-Cumming noted. “Because we have this global network, which you know is everywhere around the world, we can provide a complete and fast [zero-trust] solution everywhere.” “We believe zero trust must extend to the entire network, all the way from email to data centers, and accelerate user and endpoint connections, not slow people down,” Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said in a statement.  “When I sit with customers, they share that one of the most daunting aspects of zero-trust security is simply where to begin. Making matters worse, every vendor has a different definition for zero trust, turning a critical approach to security into a misunderstood and overused term,” he added. “We want to give every customer a step-by-step guide for what they can do today, this week, and this month to make themselves more secure regardless of what vendor they use.”