Enhanced security and simplified controls with automated botnet protection, cipher suite selection, and URL Scanner updates
Mar 17, 2025Alexandra Moraru, Mia Malden, Yomna Shousha, Sofia Cardita
Summary
This post details the automation of Cloudflare's Security Level feature, moving from manual threshold configuration to an always-protected state by integrating botnet data and other request rate signals. It also introduces granular cipher suite selection in the dashboard and enhancements to the URL scanner, including bulk scanning and similarity search.
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