Cloudflare is well-known for protecting and accelerating web experiences around the world. It’s no wonder that almost 20% of the web uses Cloudflare, processing 32 million HTTP requests every second of every day. But there’s more to Cloudflare than meets the eye. Here are 5 things you might not know about Cloudflare and how it is delivering better user experiences, lower costs and business-boosting security services to companies around the world.

Festive Fact #1 It frees up your team to innovate, not firefight!

Modern organisations lose countless hours managing security incidents, tuning rules, and maintaining fragmented tools. That time drains focus away from building better digital experiences.

The Technology: Customers use Cloudflare’s unified security and performance platform including WAF, Rate Limiting, CDN, Bot Management, Workers, and R2 Storage, all delivered from Cloudflare’s global edge network.

The Benefit to You: By consolidating protection and performance at the edge, your team spends dramatically less time on security and infrastructure overhead, and far more time creating value for customers.

Customer story: mod.io reduced its cybersecurity workload by 60–70%, shifting that time back into product development and customer experience.

Festive Fact #2 It keeps bad actors out (before you even notice them)

Cyber threats don’t take holidays and modern attacks move fast. One compromised credential or insecure device can expose an entire organisation.

The Technology: Cloudflare One verifies every user, every device, and every request using Zero Trust principles. Identity, device posture, network controls and threat intelligence all run together on Cloudflare’s global edge, with no VPN slowdown.

The Benefit to You: Your team gets fast, seamless access. Attackers get blocked instantly. No bottlenecks, no complex agents, no legacy VPN pain. Applied Systems replaced its legacy VPN and Zscaler setup with Cloudflare Zero Trust, accelerating access for global employees while strengthening security across every device.

Cloudflare Connectivity Cloud blocks an average of around 158 billion threats per day.  

Festive Fact #3 It protects your data everywhere (even where you don’t expect it)

Sensitive data lives everywhere: in SaaS apps, emails, shared drives, cloud storage and personal devices. Traditional tools can’t keep up.

The Technology:
Cloudflare One brings together Data Loss Prevention (DLP), CASB, and email security, all operating at the global edge. This means one unified control plane to detect sensitive data, prevent leaks and fix SaaS misconfigurations in real time.

The Benefit to You:
You get consistent, lightweight protection across your entire digital ecosystem, without friction for your teams or extra tools to manage. Organisations using Cloudflare CASB and DLP have uncovered misconfigured SaaS apps and exposed data in hours instead of months, quickly remediating risks across their cloud environments.