Scaling Security Insights: how we achieved a 10x increase in global scanning capacity
Cloudflare Security Insights system now processes over 120 scans per second, providing frequent insights for all customers. By optimizing Kafka consumers, Postgres queries, and our API, we scaled our throughput 10x without adding hardware.
Cloudflare is responding to the escalating need for robust and scalable application security solutions as threats become more sophisticated and data volumes grow.
This development indicates a continued maturation of security infrastructure, allowing businesses to maintain strong security postures while handling increasing data and traffic.
Organizations can now benefit from more frequent and comprehensive security insights from Cloudflare, improving their ability to detect and respond to threats efficiently.
- · Cloudflare
- · Businesses using Cloudflare security services
- · Application security providers
- · Malicious actors
- · Organizations with less robust security infrastructure
Cloudflare's customers achieve better and faster identification of security vulnerabilities and threats.
This improved security posture across many businesses can reduce the overall attack surface in the internet ecosystem.
It might set a new benchmark for 'always-on' high-frequency security scanning, prompting competitors to invest more heavily in similar scaling initiatives.
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