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Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare's CTO John Graham-Cumming for the final episode of "This Week in Net" in 2024, broadcasting from a rainy Lisbon, Portugal. The conversation reflects on Cloudflare's achievements throughout the year, including significant developments in Workers platform, AI capabilities, and hardware innovations.
The episode explores predictions for 2025, examining the intersection of AI and privacy, quantum-resistant encryption, and cybersecurity threats. John Graham-Cumming shares his perspective on how AI capabilities will become more seamlessly integrated into daily life.
Looking ahead to emerging technology trends, the discussion covers IoT devices, DDoS attacks, and zero trust architecture adoption. Cloudflare’s CTO offers insights into the tech industry's shift toward energy efficiency and reduced carbon footprints as AI computing demands continue to grow.
Originally aired on December 27, 2024.
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Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare’s Head of Hardware Engineering, Syona Sarma, for a discussion on Cloudflare’s latest Generation 12 hardware innovations, broadcast from the Lisbon office. As Cloudflare expands its global network across over 330 cities and 120 countries, explore how the company is evolving its hardware infrastructure to meet the demands of modern technology, particularly in the AI era.
This episode offers insights into Gen 12’s key features, including a 2x performance improvement and 60% better power efficiency compared to earlier generations. Learn how Cloudflare’s hardware engineering team is addressing the AI revolution through innovative thermal design, GPU integration for AI inference, and modular architecture for future adaptability. From testing in the Austin lab to global deployment, gain a closer look at how Cloudflare’s hardware is advancing the future of internet technology.
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02:30 What is Cloudflare Radar and Year in Review
05:00 Changes in Year in Review over the years, since 2020 and the pandemic and 2024
07:16 The 2024 Year in Review microsite and how does it work
10:45 Popular Internet services
12:20 Starlink traffic trends
13:50 IPv4 traffic distribution
15:48 AI bot & crawler traffic
18:14 AI Audit — how content creators can protect their content from AI crawlers
19:09 Post-quantum encryption
22:35 iOS vs Android
24:22 HTTP versions & Website technologies & API client language popularity
26:50 Search engine market share & browser market share
28:49 Internet outages
31:33 Internet quality (Spain ahead) & TCP connection anomalies
33:28 Mitigated traffic (attacks)
35:00 Most targeted industries (attacks) & vulnerabilities
36:41 Routing security (and RPKI) & email threats
40:20 Our detailed blog posts full of trends
43:28 What to expect from Radar (and Year in Review) in 2025
Explore the worldwide trends that shaped the Internet with Cloudflare Radar’s 2024 Internet Year in Review. Join Host João Tomé and Cloudflare Head of Data Insights, David Belson as they look at Internet trends and patterns across 2024.
We also discuss Robotcop and how content creators can prevent bots and crawlers from scraping their sites using a button in the AI Audit section of the Cloudflare dashboard.
Dive into the data yourself at the Cloudflare Radar Year in Review microsite
radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2024
Visibility and control get harder, and the tools used to tame the complexity just add more complexity.
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Visibility and control get harder, and the tools used to tame the complexity just add more complexity.
Learn more at cloudflare.com/connectivity-cloud
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With ample networking opportunities, it was a dynamic and impactful day you won’t want to miss!
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See how we simplify compliance — while keeping your data secure and accessible.
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This week, host João Tomé is joined by Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of Wired, during his participation at Web Summit, the international event held in Lisbon with over 70,000 attendees.
In this conversation, Thompson discusses the Internet, AI, social media, and the challenge of protecting content creators from AI crawlers—a problem Cloudflare’s AI Audit is designed to address. We also explore the 2024 media landscape, its future, and its role in supporting democracy.
To wrap up, we include a short clip with Cloudflare’s CEO, Matthew Prince, highlighting the importance of AI Audit in today’s world, along with a review of some recent blog posts.
Related Links:
AI Audit blog: blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-ai-audit-control-ai-content-crawlers
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Watch the full Modern Security episode here: cloudflare.tv/modernsecurity/modern-security-quantum-tech-and-social-responsibility/4ZDE0ygB
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Celso Martinho is a Senior Director of Engineering at Cloudflare. He works across multiple teams from Radar to Workers AI in our new Cloudflare Lisbon offices.
In this conversation, host João Tomé and Celso discuss the rapid growth of Cloudflare Workers, simplifying life for developers, and the importance of observability in AI. Celso also dives into how the challenges for developers have changed since the 1990s tech era and why he believes the Internet is still in its infancy.
Related Links:
Build durable applications on Cloudflare Workers: you write the Workflows, we take care of the rest — blog.cloudflare.com/building-workflows-durable-execution-on-workers
AI Gateway for Developers — developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway
Building Vectorize, a distributed vector database, on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform — blog.cloudflare.com/building-vectorize-a-distributed-vector-database-on-cloudflare-developer-platform
Join us as we recap the exciting moments from Cloudflare Immerse Stockholm, held on October 1st, 2024, at The Six. This event brought together key industry leaders and valued Cloudflare customers, including Boozt, Hoxhunt, Bolt, and Norwegian Air, who shared their insights and experiences on stage.
We were also privileged to hear from outstanding Cloudflare executives and speakers, including Matthew Prince, Sam Rhea, Dave Barnett, Matilda Eriksson, Alex Moraru, Gift Egwuenu and Hans Werner, the CEO of Radar Group.
With ample networking opportunities, it was a dynamic and informative day you won’t want to miss!
Stay tuned for upcoming Immerse events in your region.
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In this week’s episode, we look at patent trolls, what they are, and why a recent Cloudflare win also helps the industry to innovate.
Host João Tomé is joined by Emily Terrell, Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation, and Patrick Nemeroff, Senior Director, Legal Counsel. We discuss how Cloudflare was sued by the patent troll Sable but emerged victorious. Sable was ordered to pay Cloudflare $225,000 and grant a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio.
Related blog post:
blog.cloudflare.com/patent-troll-sable-pays-up
Project Jengo: cloudflare.com/jengo
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Digital transformation in banking: cloudflare.com/the-net/securing-financial-services/?utm_medium=organic-social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=2024-q3-bnd-gbl-umbrella-ge-ge-general-linewsletter
From cloud and mobile to blockchain and AI, new technologies are reshaping banking. Banks adopting these technologies are changing how they operate and deliver value to customers.
New technologies can create unexpected security vulnerabilities. Banks must implement robust, multi-layered security capabilities to reduce cyber risks and avoid data breaches.
Balancing data sovereignty and AI: cloudflare.com/the-net/balancing-data-sovereignty-and-ai/?utm_medium=organic-social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=2024-q3-bnd-gbl-umbrella-ge-ge-general-linewsletter
Data sovereignty and localization rules require organizations to maintain tight control over where data is collected, processed, and stored. Using AI models seriously complicates compliance.
Organizations need ways to leverage AI without letting data cross geographical borders. Unless they can control where models run and how models are updated, they risk costly regulatory violations.
Cloud implications on business security: cloudflare.com/the-net/top-of-mind-technology/cloud-security/?utm_medium=organic-social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=2024-q3-bnd-gbl-umbrella-ge-ge-general-linewsletter
An upsurge in DDoS attacks, the expansion of hybrid work, and a rise in hacktivism related to geopolitical conflicts are forcing organizations to strengthen cloud security.
Organizations should recalibrate strategies now to stay ahead of rapidly emerging threats, like the growth of AI-enhanced phishing schemes and the use of quantum computing to defeat data encryption.
Read these and other Internet insights at: cloudflare.com/the-net/?utm_source=organic-social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bnd-gbl-umbrella-ge-ge-general-ts_aug_video
Host João Tomé is joined by Reagan Russell, Senior Manager of Project Management, who shares what it’s like to organize and plan an innovation week where Cloudflare announces numerous products and features.
We discuss how teams across the company — from technical groups to marketing and communications — collaborate to put together a week where Cloudflare aims to give back to the Internet. We also talk about the need for established processes and how new ideas can sometimes change plans.
Check our Birthday Week Hub here: cloudflare.com/birthday-week
Join us as we recap the exciting moments from Cloudflare Immerse Prague, held on September 19th, 2024. This event brought together key industry leaders and valued Cloudflare customers, including airBaltic, Ridango, Modivo, Surfshark, and CodeNOW, who shared their insights and experiences on stage.
With plenty of networking opportunities, it was a dynamic and informative day you won’t want to miss!
Stay tuned for upcoming Immerse events in your region.
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In this week’s episode, we look at the behind-the-scenes of our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week.
Host João Tomé is joined by Kari Linder, Principal Visual Communications Design Lead and she shares about the inspiration and creation process behind innovation weeks. Discover the creative process and artistry that brings Cloudflare's iconic celebration to life.
Check our Birthday Week Hub here: cloudflare.com/birthday-week
In this week’s episode, we recap our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week, and its many announcements.
Host João Tomé is joined by Brendan Irvine-Broque (Group Product Manager) and Kelly May Johnston (Director, Product Management). We dive into some of the key announcements of the week, including the AI audit and major improvements in security, performance, and AI/ML support, such as enhanced threat detection and analytics, faster navigation with Speed Brain, and expanded free tools for all users.
Check our Birthday Week Hub here: cloudflare.com/birthday-week
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In this special episode for our Birthday Week 2024, we discuss how Cloudflare’s Birthday Weeks came to be and how they inspire a series of innovation weeks full of announcements each year.
Host João Tomé is joined by Matthew Prince, Cloudflare’s Co-founder and CEO, in an episode recorded in our new Lisbon office, where Matthew has been living for the past few weeks.
We explore why Cloudflare’s European headquarters is now based in Lisbon, the goals for the new office, and how the company is celebrating its 14th anniversary. Topics include the launch of automatic IPv6 Gateway in 2011, the significance of universal SSL for free in 2014, and how Birthday Week has evolved to inspire innovation weeks throughout the year, aligning with the company's mission of building a better Internet.
We also touch on AI-focused announcements and plans for 2024, providing content creators with better tools and more control and state of the Internet.
Cloudflare Birthday Week 2024 Hub:
cloudflare.com/birthday-week
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Originally aired on September 20, 2024
Recorded, in part, directly from Cloudflare's new Lisbon office, in this episode, host João Tomé is joined by John Engates, Cloudflare's Field CTO. Before recapping our summer announcements and news, we provide a teaser of what to expect from our #BirthdayWeek (by Brendan Irvine-Broque).
Mentioned blog posts:
- The backbone behind Cloudflare’s Connectivity Cloud
- Introducing Automatic SSL/TLS: securing and simplifying origin connectivity
- NIST’s first post-quantum standards
- Making progress on routing security: the new White House roadmap
- Customers get increased integration with Cloudflare Email Security and Zero Trust through expanded partnership with CrowdStrike
- Protecting APIs from abuse using sequence learning and variable order Markov chains
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Brendan Irvine-Broque, from our product team, gives a quick preview of our #BirthdayWeek 2024 (September 23- 27), that will come as usual full of announcements.
Here are some highlights on what to expect.
cloudflare.com/birthday-week
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Originally aired on August 20, 2024
In this week’s episode, we talk about the Paris 2024 Olympics Internet trends, and also about the experiences of our 60 interns this summer.
Host João Tomé is joined by Michelle Zatlyn, Cloudflare’s Co-founder, President and COO. Michelle was in Paris for the Summer Olympics and talks about the in-person experiences that she had. We also go over the event’s impact on the Internet in France and other countries at different moments, its effect on specific websites, and a spike in cyber threats and emails related to Simone Biles and others.
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Multi-channel Phishing
Host: Chris Lopez
Date: March 2024
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From our San Francisco headquarters, we sit down with Jenny Reich, a Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Law Center on National Security. As an expert in social media law, Jenny examines social media's impact on misinformation, cybersecurity and journalism. In this episode taped during the 2024 RSA Conference, Jenny offers her expert perspective on growing congressional pressure for social media regulation, the origins of data breaches from chat rooms, Section 230 and TikTok as the new Gen Z search engine.
Recorded in May 2024.
Read more:
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/national-security-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/07/Social-Media-Report-Final.pdf
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In this episode, host Joao Tome and cryptographer and security technologist and public policy lecturer, Bruce Schneier discuss the evolving landscape of Internet security. They explore AI-related cybersecurity risks, the impact of new technologies on democracy, and the current state of the global Internet. Schneier examines how new technologies are impacting democratic processes worldwide and provides insights on balancing the delicate balance between privacy risks and benefits in the digital age. The conversation also covers the need for updated regulations and the future of post-quantum cryptography.
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In this week’s episode, we go a bit technical in our segment “Let’s //Get\ Technical,” featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. We discuss AI bot and crawlers, elections and more.
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Host João Tomé and John Graham-Cumming begin by explaining how Cloudflare recently launched a new “easy button” to block all AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers to help maintain a safe Internet for content creators. It’s available to all customers, including those on our free tier. We demonstrate how to activate this button on the Cloudflare dashboard. We also explain the purpose of the robots.txt file—it resides at the root of your domain and contains directives for search engine crawlers on how to index pages on a website.
Next, we discuss how we recently replaced links to polyfill.io with Cloudflare’s mirror to ensure a safer Internet—polyfill.io is a popular JavaScript library service that can no longer be trusted and should be removed from websites.
We also analyze recent election trends in the UK and France, as well as the Biden vs. Trump US election debate. We were surprised to find that so many websites related to political parties were the targets of DDoS attacks blocked by Cloudflare around the election (or debate) days.
Also mentioned is Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024. The root cause was a combination of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking and a route leak.
This on-demand webinar, including speakers: Cathy O'Sullivan, APAC Editor in Chief from CSO, Matt O'Kane, Director of Notion Digital Forensics and Ben Munroe, APJC Senior Director from Cloudflare, dissects real life cyber-breaches and provides valuable insights that security professionals can use to safeguard their assets, data, clients, and reputation.
02:28 The problem of password reuse
05:33 Password hygiene; password tools, multi-factor authentication
07:05 Leaked password notification
09:00 Two-factor authentication numbers
11:10 The process of finding leaked passwords and share it
14:43 What's coming in the password realm. Secure by design pledge
16:16 Easy to use security. Plug and be secure
20:40 Threats and opportunities in 2024. A "no password needed" future (biometrics)
24:45 Mickie Betz about generated captions in our Stream video product
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In this week’s episode, we explore the realm of passwords, leaked passwords, two-factor authentication (2FA), and also AI generated captions for video.
Host João Tomé is joined by Garrett Galow, Director of Product at Cloudflare, to discuss a recent blog post on how we help keep customers safe through leaked password notifications accessible via our dashboard. We also discuss the use of passwords in 2024, the importance of 2FA or multi-factor authentication like hardware keys, offer suggestions, and explore how passwords might become less common in the future.
Lastly, Mickie Betz, Senior Systems Engineer of our Stream video product, discusses Stream Generated Captions. With just one click, users can effortlessly generate video captions using Stream’s latest feature: AI-generated captions for on-demand videos and live stream recordings. Mickie explains how the Stream engineering team developed this feature using our own Workers AI and the Whisper model—an open-source Automatic Speech Recognition model—with just a single API call.
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