Cloudflare Gateway

A cloud-native, low-latency Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

With visibility into approximately 20% of the web, Cloudflare’s unmatched network scale protects employee Internet browsing and blocks breach-causing threats.

BENEFITS OF CLOUDFLARE GATEWAY
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Accelerate user Internet access

No more traffic backhauling. Our single-pass inspection is 50% faster than SWG alternatives.

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Block known and unknown threats

Cloudflare's DNS and HTTP telemetry and threat detection models catch more risks.

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Monitor traffic across your network

Stack in-line Zero Trust services to provide holistic Internet traffic visibility across users, devices, and locations.

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Easy implementation and management

Streamline policy building and auditing with predefined categories.

How it works

Inspect browser traffic from our global network

How Cloudflare Gateway inspects traffic wherever employees work, offering secure browsing with no disruptions

Our Secure Web Gateway runs everywhere in Cloudflare’s global network, letting you inspect traffic wherever employees work.

It also runs in-line with our data loss prevention and remote browser isolation — offering secure browsing with no disruptions.

How Cloudflare Gateway inspects traffic wherever employees work, offering secure browsing with no disruptions

Learn how Gateway works within Cloudflare’s SASE platform

ANALYST RECOGNITION
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Cloudflare named in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE

We believe this recognition is a testament to Cloudflare’s “light branch, heavy cloud” architecture and its ability to help global, cloud-minded enterprises accelerate their network modernization.

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Cloudflare a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Security Service Edge Solutions, Q1 2024

Cloudflare received the highest score in the global network criterion. We believe this recognition validates our commitment to build SASE “the right way,” converging network and security services on a composable, programmable connectivity cloud.

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Cloudflare named a "Leader" in 2023 IDC MarketScape for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

IDC cites Cloudflare's "aggressive product strategy to support enterprise security needs." We believe our recognition validates our approach to help businesses of any size get started with Zero Trust and secure access for any user to any resource, without VPNs.

What our customers are saying

“Algolia is growing pretty fast. We needed a way to have visibility across our corporate network without slowing things down for our employees. Gateway gave us a simple way to do that.”

Director of Infrastructure & Security — Adam Surak

TOP GATEWAY USE CASES
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Protect against phishing and ransomware

Block attacks with proactive filtering and inspection policies across many security categories.

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Secure distributed remote offices

Protect office users across any location with DNS filtering or more advanced inspections.

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Protect remote workers

Keep users safe on the open web, regardless of where they work.

Helping organizations worldwide progress towards Zero Trust

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