Cloudflare Adds New Endpoint, Web Security Service

Cloudflare Adds New Endpoint, Web Security Service
"Teams" and a new browser security acquisition expand the cloud firm's security offerings.

Distributed denial-of-service mitigation and infrastructure provider Cloudflare kicked off the new year with the acquisition of a browser security firm and the launch of a new security service that includes a combination of identity and access management, endpoint protection, and Internet filtering.


Cloudflare today announced that it has acquired browser-isolation technology vendor S2 Systems Corp., whose product runs browser code in the cloud as a way to protect endpoints from Web-borne threats. Cloudflare also rolled out Cloudflare for Teams, a combination of two products that underscores the company's deeper dive into security services. The S2 buy and new security rollout come just a few months after Cloudflare's initial public offering in September of last year.


Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, says the new Teams services use the same technology that the company built for its own internal Internet proxy-style infrastructure. "We now can talk to largely the same [Cloudflare] customers and say, 'you need the network for infrastructure but also for your teams,'" Prince says.


Cloudflare now offers a "giant network proxy that's highly programmable," he explains, and supports its customers' mobile and decentralized employee bases. Teams is made up of two main services, Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway, both of which will be available midyear. 


The updated Cloudflare Access service, which was first released in 2018, mirrors the emerging "zero-trust" approach, according to the company. Zero trust basically considers users and devices untrusted until they undergo more scrutinized authentication, user monitoring, and endpoint protection. Cloudflare has partnered with identity vendors Okta, OneLogin, and Ping I ..

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