Replace your hardware firewalls with Cloudflare One
This post introduces Cloudflare One as a cloud-native firewall solution designed to replace hardware firewalls. It details the historical evolution of firewalls from stateless packet filtering to stateful inspection, deep packet inspection, and next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) with application awareness. It highlights the shift towards Zero Trust principles and the integration with identity providers. The core contribution is the description of Cloudflare One's capabilities, including flexible on-ramps, global network scalability, comprehensive policy configuration (layers 3-7), integration with Zero Trust attributes, managed lists, deep packet inspection, programmable packet filtering, protected DNS, application/content categories, and remote browser isolation.
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