Security Week 2024 wrap up

The global political landscape is set to change significantly over the next 12 months with elections occurring in more than 80 nations. Alongside this, new technologies such as AI are capturing our imagination and posing new security challenges. In light of these developments, the role of CISOs has never been more important. Cloudflare's Chief Security Officer, Grant Bourzikas, shared his views on the biggest challenges currently facing the security industry in a recent blog post. Over the past week, Cloudflare announced several new products and features aimed at addressing these crucial challenges for CISOs around the globe. These include features that span across Cloudflare's product portfolio, from application security to securing employees and cloud infrastructure. Additionally, stories have been published on how Cloudflare takes a Customer Zero approach to using its services to manage security within the company. Among the new products and features announced during Security Week are: Firewall for AI, Defensive AI framework, AI Assistant for Security Analytics, Magic Cloud Networking, Security Center enhancements, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) enhancements, user risk scoring in Cloudflare One, eliminating VPN vulnerabilities with Cloudflare One, behavior-based user risk scoring in Cloudflare One, Log Explorer, simpler migration from Netskope and Zscaler to Cloudflare, API protection with JWT Validation, Express Cloudflare Network Interconnect, SASE anxiety for VeloCloud customers, free network flow monitoring for all enterprise customers, building secure websites with Cloudflare Pages and Turnstile Plugin, General Availability of WAF Content Scanning, URL Scanner API enhancements, adherence to CISA's Secure by Design principles, post-quantum Internet updates, Advanced DNS Protection system, Linux kernel security tunables, securing Cloudflare with Cloudflare Zero Trust journey, network performance update, and launching email security insights on Cloudflare Radar. In the coming months, Cloudflare will continue to focus on making the internet better by supporting global democracy during the 2024 voting season, navigating Magecart threats, enhancing URL Scanner API, promoting secure client-side posture, and sharing insights into email security trends. The company is also preparing for its next Innovation Week in early April, which will be focused on the developer community.