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Feb 20, 2022

This note describes Cloudflare services that could enable RLC and new owners to securely interconnect networks, devices, applications, and control users access to what they need.

Navigating Website

The website is organized into chapters. Each chapter is a separate page.

There are several methods for navigating through the chapters of the website.

The sidebar on the left provides a list of all chapters. Clicking on any of the chapter titles will load that page.

The sidebar may not automatically appear if the window is too narrow, particularly on mobile displays. In that situation, the menu icon (three horizontal bars) at the top-left of the page can be pressed to open and close the sidebar.

The arrow buttons at the bottom of the page can be used to navigate to the previous or the next chapter.

The left and right arrow keys on the keyboard can be used to navigate to the previous or the next chapter.

Top menu bar

The menu bar at the top of the page provides some icons for interacting with the website.

IconDescription
Opens and closes the chapter listing sidebar.
Opens a picker to choose a different color theme.
Opens a search bar for searching within the book.
Instructs the web browser to print the entire book.

Tapping the menu bar will scroll the page to the top.

Pressing the search icon () in the menu bar, or pressing the S key on the keyboard will open an input box for entering search terms. Typing some terms will show matching chapters and sections in real time.

Clicking any of the results will jump to that section. The up and down arrow keys can be used to navigate the results, and enter will open the highlighted section.

After loading a search result, the matching search terms will be highlighted in the text. Clicking a highlighted word or pressing the Esc key will remove the highlighting.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a global network built for the cloud and designed to make everything customers connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable.

  • Secure websites, APIs, and Internet applications.
  • Protect corporate networks, employees, and devices.
  • Write and deploy code that runs on the network edge.

Connectivity

Cloudflare is a fast global cloud network, with 250 city data centers located in 100+ countries,

The Cloudflare global network runs every service in every data center so users have a consistent experience everywhere. Customer traffic is processed at the data center closest to them, with no backhauling or performance tradeoffs.

More than 10,000 networks directly connect to Cloudflare, including every major ISP, cloud provider, and enterprise The network is a 120 Tbps capacity global network edge, consisting of transit connections, peering and private network interconnects.

Interconnectivity

Cloudflare services enables RLC and new owners to securely interconnect networks and devices enabling applications and users controlled access to what they need.

Secure Work-From-Anywhere

  • Secure Remote Workforces
  • Deliver Zero Trust Network Access
  • Replace Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  • Protect Employees on the Internet
  • Stop Ransomware, Phishing & Data Loss
  • Manage Access for Contractors

Teams

Cloudflare for Teams is a suite of tools Cloudflare built to protect themselves, and is available to help any IT organization, from the smallest to the largest.

Cloudflare for Teams is built around two complementary products:

  • Cloudflare Access is the modern VPN — a way to ensure team members get fast access to the resources they need to do their job while keeping threats out.

  • Cloudflare Gateway is the modern Firewall. It insures team members are protected from malware and follow your organization's policies wherever they go online.

  • Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway are built on the existing Cloudflare network. They are fast, reliable, scalable to the largest organizations, DDoS resistant, and located everywhere your team members are today and wherever they may travel.

Protection

  • Cloudflare for Teams protects enterprises, devices, and data by securing every connection without compromising user performance. The speed, reliability and protection securing infrastructure is extended to everything teams does on the Internet.

  • All Cloudflare for Teams products sees threat intelligence across all Cloudflare's products.

  • Cloudflare often see new threats and malware before anyone else.

  • Cloudflare supplements proprietary data with additional data sources from leading security vendors, ensuring Cloudflare for Teams provides a broad set of protections against malware and other online threats.

Technical Details

Technical details about Cloudflare for Teams is here Cloudflare for Teams

Foundation

Cloudflare could be the foundation for RBL and new owners infrastructure, applications, and teams. Cloudflare products protect and accelerate websites, apps, and helps teams manage complexity of legacy network hardware without the cost and complexity of managing

Secure Work-From-Anywhere

  • Secure Remote Workforces
  • Deliver Zero Trust Network Access
  • Replace Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  • Protect Employees on the Internet
  • Stop Ransomware, Phishing & Data Loss
  • Manage Access for Contractors

Cloudflare for Teams

  • Cloudflare Access is the modern VPN — a way to ensure team members get fast access to the resources they need to do their job while keeping threats out.

  • Cloudflare Gateway is the modern Firewall. It insures team members are protected from malware and follow your organization's policies wherever they go online.

  • Cloudflare for Teams protects enterprises, devices, and data by securing every connection without compromising user performance. The speed, reliability and protection securing infrastructure is extended to everything teams does on the Internet.

Replace Firewalls

Cloudflare CEO: Ditch Palo Alto Networks

Splunk

Cloudflare Logpush supports pushing logs directly to Splunk via the Cloudflare dashboard or via API.

Enable Logpush to Splunk

Plans

The plans start at $0 per user, maximum of 50 users. I am signed up for Application Services and zero Trust both plans for test drive some of the features.

  • Core Features

    • Secure users, devices, and networks with Zero Trust browsing and application access
    • All pricing plans start with the same base set of security controls designed to bring the power of Cloudflare’s global edge network.

  • Application Services

    - Fast, Easy-to-use DNS

- Unmetered DoS mitigation

- Globally Load Balanced CDN

- Universal SSL Certificate

  • Zero Trust

    - Zero Trust Network Access

- Secure Web Gateway

- Private Routing to IP/Hosts

- HTTP/S Inspection and Filters

- Network Firewall as a Service

- Cloud Access Security Broker

- DNS Resolution and Filters