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BigQuery as a Data Warehouse for Cloudflare Firewall Events

Big Data, BigQuery, Cloud Firewalls, Cloud Run, CloudFlare, Cybersecurity, Data Pipelines, Google Cloud, Microservices, SecOps, Web Application Firewall

If you have created some custom rules for your zone in the Cloudflare WAF, you can easily see the IP addresses and URI paths which have triggered those rules by simply selecting the rule from the Cloudflare dashboard. A key…

OPNsense Open Source Firewall vs. Cloudflare Managed WAF

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Firewalls, CloudFlare, Cybersecurity, DDoS Protection, IDS/IPS, ModSecurity, NAXSI, OPNsense, pfSense Alternative, SecOps, Suricata, Web Application Firewall

Since both are labelled as “firewall” products, a managed WAF like Cloudflare is often compared to a stateful firewall like OPNsense – which also has WAF capabilities, and much more. This comparison is not really apples-to-apples, especially since OPNsense has…

Open WebUI + Ollama with Azure Kubernetes Service & Ingress TLS

AI Infrastructure

Azure, ChatGPT Alternative, CloudFlare, Container Orchestration, Kubernetes, Load Balancing, Locally Hosted AI, Ollama, Open Source AI, Private AI, SSL Certificates

Open WebUI is a fork of LibreChat, an open source AI chat platform that we have extensively discussed on our blog and integrated on behalf of clients. Where LibreChat integrates with any well-known remote or local AI service on the…

Llama 3 on Cloudflare Workers AI – AI at the Edge

AI Infrastructure

AI as a Service, Cloud Run, CloudFlare, Docker, Edge AI, Generative AI, LibreChat, LiteLLM, Llama 3, NextCloud, Open LLM Models

Cloudflare Workers is a serverless computing platform leveraging Cloudflare’s global network of datacenters, also known as edge locations, in over 300 cities and 100 countries around the world. The Workers service is used by Cloudflare’s customers to host & run…

How CloudFlare’s Firewall Enables Security & Compliance

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Firewalls, CloudFlare, Cybersecurity

There are many reasons why an organization would want to restrict access to their website or web applications to a certain country, or list of countries. Business-related reasons may include localization of pricing and/or product offerings based on geographical market.…

Protecting NextCloud behind CloudFlare Firewall and Anti-DDoS

Open Source Apps

CloudFlare, Cybersecurity, NextCloud

Get NextCloud, Installed on Your ServerFor convenience, most NextCloud instances are running on a web server exposed to the Internet, and its myriad of cybercriminals and security threats. Even if your NextCloud server is properly hardened and all your users…

CloudFlare Alternatives & Multi-CDN Options for DDoS Protection

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS, CloudFlare, Content Delivery Network, Cybersecurity

Have you wondered what content delivery network (CDN) options exist beyond Cloudflare? Cloudflare provides an important service combining DDoS protection and site acceleration for many webmasters, and if their generous free tier never existed, many webmasters may have never considered…

Practical Advice for Securing Cloud Applications with Firewalls

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Firewalls, CloudFlare, Cybersecurity

In our 3 part series on setting up a minimal cluster for a LAMP web application on a cloud provider such as DigitalOcean, we relied on the private networking feature for network communication between all the nodes. Many customers looking…

Why CloudFlare’s Flexible SSL Setting Is Unsafe

Cloud Infrastructure

CloudFlare, Cybersecurity, SSL Certificates

CloudFlare Universal SSL is getting more webmasters on board with encrypting the entire Internet than ever — and that’s a good thing. But it’s important to understand the technical characteristics of CloudFlare’s free shared SSL certificate, and its limitations. As…