Cloudflare Blog

August 14, 2026

How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it

Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on managed network paths.

August 14, 2026

Secure all your internal vibe-coded applications in one click

Introducing Cloudflare Access for Workers. Attach an Access policy directly to a Worker and it applies everywhere that Worker runs routes, custom domains, workers.dev, and previews automatically.

August 13, 2026

Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal

Cloudflare's data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Iceland to Spain and Portugal, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 12, 2026.

August 13, 2026

Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available

Cloudflare's Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available. The biggest change: we no longer email you about certificates Cloudflare issued for your domain, so when an alert lands in your inbox, it's worth a look.

August 11, 2026

Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave

In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report breaks down how major geopolitical conflicts reshaped the global cyber threat landscape.

August 10, 2026

Everything we launched during Agents Week

Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Heres a recap of all the announcements we made from Wallets to Radar.

August 10, 2026

Serving the most critical missions: Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status

Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status. We also announce our commitment to pursue DoD IL4 authorization. Cloudflare brings world-class security, performance, and developer products to the public sector.

August 7, 2026

Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet

Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor and try out our Precursor Trace simulation to see how your own cursor movements would be assessed as human or bot.

August 7, 2026

Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language

Cloudflare Radar Researcher is a new AI-powered tool that lets you explore global Internet trends and traffic data using plain language. Built entirely on Cloudflare's Developer Platform, it turns natural language queries into real, interactive charts.

August 7, 2026

Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding

We are launching updated community programs, including Cloudflare Ambassadors and Community Engineers, backed by $1M in open-source funding. Learn how we are supporting maintainers and scaling our developer community.

August 7, 2026

Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane

Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both managed GPUs and external providers. Learn how unified bindings and model-first routing simplify building resilient AI applications.

August 6, 2026

Cloudflare AI Search: give your agents a search engine for your data

AI Search makes search easier than ever, with no Cloudflare primitives to stitch together. Point it at your data to create a search for your own files and websites. We're also sharing a preview of our new pricing model.

August 6, 2026

The next generation of MCP

The next version of MCP has a rewritten, stateless core that just works on Workers. We cover upgrades to the protocol, the new feature lifecycle and SDK migration path, and hear from early adopters already running it in production.

August 6, 2026

From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents

More than half of requests now come from machines, not people. Agent Readiness shows how well agents can discover and read your site, while Answer Engine Optimization tracks how often AI assistants recommend you.

August 6, 2026

Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable

Agents are a new kind of visitor. They don't render CSS or click ads, but they have a paying human on the other end. Block them and you block your customer. We're building the open tools and protocols so publishers and agents can cooperate and not collide.

August 6, 2026

Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers

We should be giving all agents tools that excel at whats important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflares new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.

August 6, 2026

Give any website a WebMCP interface

Today we're launching a developer preview of WebMCP on Cloudflare. With one switch, any site becomes usable by browser AI agents no new APIs, no origin changes while the human stays in control and creators keep their traffic.

August 5, 2026

Cloudflare is the only vendor named a Visionary in 2026 SASE and SSE reports

We're honored to announce that Cloudflare is the only vendor that has been recognized as a Visionary in both the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms and the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge reports.