According to SiliconAngle reports, Cloudflare is expanding its business to include Internet security outside of websites and cloud applications. Previously, Cloudflare helped companies block malicious traffic and allow their online content to load faster. According to today’s disclosure, the new service is designed to protect those networked infrastructures that operate in the context of public networks, covering everything from internal corporate e-mail servers to networked devices deployed in the field.
Although some of them operate in isolated networks, many of these systems communicate over an open Web. As a result, they are just as vulnerable to distributed denial of service attacks as websites.
Cloudflare said that Spectrum security service allows companies to cope with these threats with the same DDoS mitigation capabilities that they have always provided for online services.
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For the defense of these attacks, Cloudflare’s solution is actually very simple: “When there’s a sudden surge in traffic that may be caused by a DDoS campaign, Cloudflare simply offloads the requests to its network of 150 data centers, which is large enough to withstand the barrage without getting knocked offline.”
Of course, there is another benefit to doing so – even if the company does not have a built-in connection protection mechanism, the Spectrum service allows companies to encrypt the data transmitted by the system.
The latter can automatically block certain IP address traffic, such as those malicious sources tagged by cybersecurity agencies.
Cloudflare has long claimed that it is responsible for 10% of all Web traffic, after the company also launched a free domain name system service, promised to make people browsing the Internet more private.
