Cloudflare: The Invisible Shield
Amir HILALY, Mathis RINGENBACH
Some context...
Problem -> Traditional servers expose IP
Visitor
Cloudflare
Website
User
Origin Server
Cloudflare
DDoS Mitigation
Cloudflare
DDoS attack
Users
WAF
November 18, 2025
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Centralizes
Half the internet
Bibliography
Websites & Official Documentation
- Cloudflare Global Network & Capacity, Cloudflare.com, 2024.
- The Cloudflare Lava Lamps: Entropy & Encryption, Cloudflare Learning Center.
- DDoS Threat Report 2024, Cloudflare Research.
- Post-Mortem: The November 18th Availability Incident by Prince, Matthew (Cloudflare Blog), November 19, 2025
Articles
- DemandSage, "Cloudflare Statistics 2025: Traffic, Users & Market Share", December 2025.
- TechCrunch, "How Cloudflare grew to protect the internet", 2023.
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