Inside Cloudflare: Preventing Account Takeovers

Cloudflare has published blog posts detailing their efforts in securing customer accounts from various forms of account takeover attacks, such as credential stuffing and botnets. The company also uses its own products to prevent account compromises on internal applications. They employ a two-tiered approach: firstly, using Cloudflare products to proactively prevent account breaches; secondly, building detections and automations to alert them if an employee account is compromised. This allows for quick investigation and remediation of suspicious behavior. The blog post also discusses common methods of account takeovers, such as brute force attacks, credential stuffing, botnets, social engineering, and phishing. It provides examples of how companies can prevent these attacks using Cloudflare's products and services.