Factual Product Summary
BGP Anycast-routed DDoS protection and traffic acceleration for on-premise, cloud, and hybrid enterprise networks.
Ingests entire enterprise IP subnets via BGP, scrubs malicious volumetric and protocol attacks, and returns clean traffic via GRE tunnels.
Documented Capabilities & Sourced Claims
Every claim is checked against official engineering documentation or compliance reports.
Automated mitigation of volumetric DDoS attacks in under 3 seconds using Anycast scrubbing
Audited Capability Specifications
Structured criteria validated against official vendor documentation for buyer comparison.
Architectural delivery model (Unified SASE, Cloud-Delivered SSE, Hybrid Mesh NGFW).
Published edge data center points of presence providing direct peering and low latency.
Application-level micro-segmentation without placing users on the corporate network.
In-line deep packet inspection, TLS decryption, and zero-day sandboxing.
Official Sources & References
Deployment & Specifications
- Deployment Models
- BGP Anycast Cloud / GRE & IPsec Tunnels
- Supported Platforms
- Network Subnet BGP Routing
- Customer Segments
- Enterprise, Service Providers
- Service Geography
- Global
Pricing Transparency
Based on number of routed Class C /24 IP prefixes and bandwidth.
About the Vendor
Cloudflare offers a portfolio covering applying access policy to users, applications or traffic, protecting availability during malicious traffic floods, protecting or governing business messaging and applying security rules to application requests. The entries in this catalog include Cloudflare Access, Cloudflare DDoS Protection, Cloudflare Email Security, Cloudflare Gateway and Cloudflare WAF. Cloudflare Access focuses on identity-aware access to private applications. Cloudflare DDoS Protection focuses on network and application attack mitigation. Cloudflare Email Security focuses on email phishing and impersonation protection. When reviewing Cloudflare, compare the named products individually: a platform family, a specific module and a managed service can have different scopes and purchasing requirements. Selection should account for identity integration, application reachability, traffic routing and the user experience during a staged rollout. Portfolio detail - Cloudflare Access: the catalog lists Zero trust network access, Device posture checks, Private application access. - Cloudflare DDoS Protection: the catalog lists DDoS attack detection, Network-layer protection, Attack visibility and reporting. - Cloudflare Email Security: the catalog lists Phishing detection, Business email compromise detection, Attachment threat analysis. - Cloudflare Gateway: the catalog lists Zero trust network access, Secure web gateway, Cloud access security broker. - Cloudflare WAF: the catalog lists Web request filtering, OWASP attack coverage, Bot traffic controls. For procurement, map each required capability to a named offering and confirm the edition, dependencies and delivery responsibility with the vendor. Product-level entries below provide the operational context and evaluation questions for that comparison.