Application Security
Learning path
Learn more about the tools Cloudflare offers to protect your website against malicious traffic and bad actors.
Modules: 6 Reading time: 28 min
Account security
Make sure your zone’s basics are configured properly.
Default traffic security
As soon as you onboard your domain to Cloudflare, you are automatically protected. This module reviews what those protections are and why they are critical.
Web Application Firewall
Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) is used to protect websites from a wide variety of attack vectors. It analyzes characteristics from each request and takes action based on your domain configuration. In the next module, we will review Rate …
Rate Limiting
Rate Limiting mitigates excessive request rates for specific URLs or for an entire domain. Request rates are calculated locally for individual Cloudflare data centers. You can configure thresholds and define responses by IP. If traffic from a …
Lists
Cloudflare Lists is a WAF feature that enables administrators to groups identifiers together, such as IPs, hostnames or ASNs, and reference the list by other Cloudflare products such as Custom rules. Cloudflare currently supports the following types …
Security Center
Cloudflare Security Center brings together our suite of security products, our security expertise, and unique Internet intelligence as a unified security intelligence solution. Security Center enables you to strengthen your security posture by: