Evolving Cloudflare’s Threat Intelligence Platform: actionable, scalable, and ETL-less

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This post introduces Cloudflare's Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), a significant evolution in their threat management capabilities. The TIP moves beyond traditional security measures by offering a centralized system for collecting, aggregating, and organizing threat data. Key contributions include the adoption of a sharded, SQLite-backed architecture for real-time, low-latency querying directly on the edge, eliminating complex ETL pipelines. It integrates global telemetry with manual investigations to provide actionable insights, correlate actors to malware, and enable automated threat response. The TIP complements SIEMs by providing specialized, long-term storage for threat events and enriching raw logs with historical context, enabling a proactive defense posture.