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That's Freaking Awesome: CloudFlare Automatically Learns How to Stop New Attacks

What's this blog post about?

Cloudflare is an intelligent system that improves its performance by analyzing changes in traffic to a website. If it detects a significant change, the system investigates whether the new traffic is legitimate or an attack. In case of an attack, Cloudflare learns from the data and starts blocking the malicious traffic at its edge nodes worldwide. This not only protects the targeted site but also benefits the entire Cloudflare community by sharing this information. The website owner in question praised the system's effectiveness during a recent DDoS attack. Regardless of their size, all websites can benefit from Cloudflare's protection and web security services.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
May 18, 2011

Author(s)
Michelle Zatlyn

Word count
298

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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