Cloudflare Threat Control: Making your website safer

This post introduces the 'Threat Control' panel within the Cloudflare dashboard, which provides users with insight into malicious traffic targeting their websites. It details the types of threats monitored (spammers, exploit attackers, botnet zombies, email harvesters, bad bots/crawlers), the information displayed for each threat (date, time, IP address, country, status, action), and how to interact with high-priority alerts. It also explains how to manually block or trust IP addresses, IP ranges, and countries via custom rules, and differentiates between challenged visitors and blocked visitors. Recommendations are provided for regular review of the Threat Control panel, including handling allowlisting requests, correcting false positives, and managing dynamic IP addresses.