Cloudflare unveils email security tools, free WAF ruleset, and API gateway>
CSO Online – Shweta Sharma
Cloudflare is bolstering its suite of web infrastructure and security offerings with a free WAF (web application firewall) managed ruleset service, a new API management gateway, and â once it closes its recently announced acquisition of Area 1 Security â a set of email tools designed to thwart phishing and malware attacks. Cloudflare announced at the end of February that it would pay $162 million to acquire Area 1, which has developed a cloud-native security platform designed to use machine learning to detect and block phishing and malware attacks. The deal is expected to close at the beginning of the second quarter. The new email security tools will be integrated with Cloudflare’s suite of zero trust solutions, and will be able to use email data to trigger additional security actions like automatically routing suspicious links through remote browser isolation or displaying phishing insights within the recently launched Cloudflare Security Center.  The Cloudflare Security Center offers a single dashboard to manage IT assets, security risks, and vulnerabilities. With the addition of Area 1 capabilities, Cloudflare says it aims to replace expensive and difficult-to-deploy legacy email security solutions. Cloudflare also revealed that it plans to provide a Cloudflare WAF (Web Application Firewall) Managed Ruleset to all of its customers, free of charge.  As the final leg in the series of announcements, Cloudflare on Wednesday unveiled a new API gateway to help its customers protect and control all of their APIs (application programming interfaces).  An API gateway is essentially a tool that sits between a client and a collection of back-end services that serves as a reverse proxy to accept all the API calls, aggregate services to fulfill the call, and then return the response to the requesting client.
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