How we think about Zero Trust Performance
Jun 22, 2023David Tuber
Summary
This post details Cloudflare's approach to measuring and optimizing Zero Trust performance. It argues for end-to-end HTTP response time as the primary metric, contrasting it with proxy latency and decrypted latency SLAs. The post explains the importance of last-mile peering, cloud peering, and diverse network paths for achieving optimal Zero Trust performance. It also outlines the methodology for performing these measurements using client programs that connect to enterprise websites through Cloudflare's Zero Trust services.
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