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This Week in NET

This Week in NET is Cloudflare’s weekly roundup exploring the Internet’s past, present, and future. Hosted by João Tomé with expert guests, it shares insights that matter to developers, businesses, and Internet enthusiasts alike. Follow us on X: @CloudflareTV and @Cloudflare Read our blog posts at blog.cloudflare.com Watch our full video library at cloudflare.tv/ThisWeekInNet

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31:25

Birthday Week 2024: Behind-the-scenes with Design

This Week in NET ·

2024/10/04

In this week’s episode, we look at the behind-the-scenes of our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week. Host João Tomé is joined by Kari Linder, Principal Visual Communications Design Lead and she shares about the inspiration and creation process behind innovation weeks. Discover the creative process and artistry that brings Cloudflare's iconic celebration to life. Check our Birthday Week Hub here: cloudflare.com/birthday-week/

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40:24

Birthday Week 2024 Recap: AI Audit, Speed Brain,...

This Week in NET ·

2024/10/02

In this week’s episode, we recap our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week, and its many announcements. Host João Tomé is joined by Brendan Irvine-Broque (Group Product Manager) and Kelly May Johnston (Director, Product Management). We dive into some of the key announcements of the week, including the AI audit and major improvements in security, performance, and AI/ML support, such as enhanced threat detection and analytics, faster navigation with Speed Brain, and expanded free

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34:11

CTO Perspectives on the Cyber Threat Landscape

This Week in NET ·

2024/09/20

Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare Field CTO, John Engates for a comprehensive episode of "This Week in NET". As Cloudflare's annual Birthday Week approaches, get an exclusive preview of the upcoming innovation announcements and how the company continues to evolve its services for the AI era. The episode explores critical cybersecurity developments, examining Cloudflare's expanded global connectivity, advancements in SSL/TLS security, and the implementation of post-quantum encryption

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24:51

Let's //Get\ Technical: Blocking AI bots and crawlers...

This Week in NET ·

2024/07/11

In this week’s episode, we go a bit technical in our segment “Let’s //Get\ Technical,” featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. We discuss AI bot and crawlers, elections and more. Host João Tomé and John Graham-Cumming begin by explaining how Cloudflare recently launched a new “easy button” to block all AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers to help maintain a safe Internet for content creators. It’s available to all customers, including those on our free tier. We demonstrate how to activate this

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30:49

Leaked passwords, no passwords, and AI generated...

This Week in NET ·

2024/06/28

In this week’s episode, we explore the realm of passwords, leaked passwords, two-factor authentication (2FA), and also AI generated captions for video. Host João Tomé is joined by Garrett Galow, Director of Product at Cloudflare, to discuss a recent blog post on how we help keep customers safe through leaked password notifications accessible via our dashboard. We also discuss the use of passwords in 2024, the importance of 2FA or multi-factor authentication like hardware keys, offer

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31:54

All about application security, firewalls, malware,...

This Week in NET ·

2024/06/21

In this week’s episode, we explore how Cloudflare handles application security, current trends, vulnerabilities, and future expectations. Host João Tomé is joined by Michael Tremante, Director of Product from our Application Security team. We discuss the evolution of application security and its increasing relevance today. We also go into specific use cases, covering firewall security, malware, supply chain risks, and the critical task of monitoring various vulnerabilities, including

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56:17

This Week in NET: 50th Anniversary of the TCP Paper

This Week in NET ·

2024/05/31

This is a special feature that celebrates the 50 years of the “TCP paper.” We asked a few questions to three of our team members who are experts in protocols about why the TCP protocol is important for what the Internet has become, its evolution over the years with new additions, and also its future. Participating are Mark Nottingham, our Standards Lead, based in Australia; Marwan Fayed, a Systems Engineer from our Research team, usually in the UK but here in Lisbon, Portugal; and Lucas

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23:48

Inside RSA Conference & jam.dev (a bug-fixing tool...

This Week in NET ·

2024/05/17

This week, host João Tomé heads to San Francisco for the cybersecurity RSA Conference (May 6-9, 2024). First, we gather insights from attendees, ranging from a cybersecurity student on the brink of graduation to seasoned managers and experts. We also feature Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer, discussing the nexus of security and privacy. Plus, insights from Carlos Alberto Silva, a Portuguese venture capitalist with extensive experience in cybersecurity investments. Last but

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28:17

Internet disruptions from cable failures to technical...

This Week in NET ·

2024/05/02

In this week's episode, we discuss Internet disruptions. Host João Tomé (based in Lisbon, Portugal) is joined by our Head of Data Insights, David Belson, based in Boston. We discuss our recent Q1 2024 Internet disruption summary blog post. There were submarine cable failures that impacted 13 countries in Africa. We also address technical issues with RPKI, DNS, and DNSSEC that disrupted connectivity for subscribers across multiple network providers. Additionally, we give you a teaser from

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25:59

Developer Week 2024 edition. AI, GA, and deep dives

This Week in NET ·

2024/04/09

In this week's episode, we have a special edition all about Cloudflare’s second innovation week of the year, Developer Week. Host João Tomé is joined by our Product wizards Rita Kozlov and Phillip Jones. We discuss the week's key announcements, including reaching 2 million developers building on Cloudflare. Each day of last week had different topics, and we shipped new products and functionality geared towards giving developers the components they need to build full-stack applications on

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47:05

Email security in the AI era and a Developer Week teaser

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2024/03/29

In this week's episode, we discuss email security with one of our security leaders, Oren Falkowitz. Since Developer Week is approaching on April 1, 2024, we also include a teaser with Rita Kozlov. João Tomé and Oren begin by examining a blog post about how recent generic Top-Level Domains, such as “.beauty”, “.wiki”, “.top”, and “.shop”, have high percentages of phishing emails. They delve into the importance of phishing and email security in 2024, Oren’s experiences with the NSA, Area 1,

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30:40

Let's //Get\ Technical: randomness, attacks on AI,...

This Week in NET ·

2024/03/22

In this week's episode, we premiere a new segment called "Let's //Get\ Technical," featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, who returns to the show. João Tomé and John discuss the importance of randomness in securing the Internet for encryption. They explore lavamillions.com, a site John created using our Pages products and also LavaRand to generate random US lottery numbers, and delve into our sources of "chaos" or randomness at our offices, as mentioned in our blog post "Harnessing chaos

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44:00

2024 Security Week edition. AI, networks,...

This Week in NET ·

2024/03/08

In this week's episode, we have a special edition all about Cloudflare’s first innovation week of the year, Security Week. João Tomé and Cloudflare's CSO Grant Bourzikas discuss the week's key announcements. Topics include AI opportunities and risks, ensuring digital visibility and control, focusing on access control and security team monitoring, optimizing CISO spending, and network complexity reduction. We showcase Cloudflare's new Firewall for AI, designed to safeguard AI applications

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30:20

Developers, new AI models and a Security Week teaser

This Week in NET ·

2024/03/01

In this week's episode, we dive into Cloudflare’s developer community, AI models, and offer a sneak peek at Security Week. João Tomé chats with Verónica Marin about the Developer Experience team. We celebrate our Developers Discord server hitting 40,000 members, discuss the kinds of questions you can get answered there, and highlight our open-source software sponsorship program. Then, we head to Canada to discuss the latest in Workers AI with Logan Grasby, including new LLMs, image

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31:38

All about privacy, Europe’s GDPR and Digital Services...

This Week in NET ·

2024/02/23

In this week's program, we talk about Cloudflare’s privacy perspective. João Tomé is joined by Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer. We discuss the importance of privacy in the Internet age and its evolution. Our recent blog post reflects on Europe’s GDPR for Privacy Day 2024. We also highlight what regular Internet users, and companies should have in mind about privacy in general, and Cloudflare’s approach to privacy. How it is interconnected with security. And what to expect

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34:47

Security incident response (Code Red) with Grant...

This Week in NET ·

2024/02/16

In this week's program, we talk about Cloudflare’s security. João Tomé is joined by Grant Bourzikas, Cloudflare’s CSO. We discuss how we dealt with a Thanksgiving 2023 security incident related to an October 2023 Okta compromise that Cloudflare had previously mitigated. Also, we discuss the significance of our access controls, firewall rules, hardware keys, and Zero Trust architecture in limiting the threat actor's impact. No Cloudflare customer data or systems were affected by this

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60:01

All about Cloudflare Hardware, Impact, and happy...

This Week in NET ·

2023/12/21

In this week's program, we go a bit longer than usual to talk about Cloudflare’s hardware, our Impact Report, and the importance of our blog, but also to wish everyone happy holidays. João Tomé initially is joined by Rebecca Weekly, our VP of Infrastructure and Head of Hardware Systems Engineering. We delve into Cloudflare’s perspective on hardware, GPUs, CPUs, and the needs of AI services and applications (you’ll learn about AI inference). We also discuss our Cloudflare Gen 12 Server

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35:26

Cloudflare 2023 Year in Review special edition

This Week in NET ·

2023/12/14

In this week's program, we discuss some of the trends from our Cloudflare Radar 2023 Year in Review. João Tomé is joined by our Head of Data Insights, David Belson, to shed light on the Internet's patterns and trends as observed through Cloudflare's global network. We cover traffic insights and trends, connectivity and speed, and security. There's also time to explore the most popular Internet services. We answer questions about which generative AI services were most popular, how X/Twitter

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33:44

Exploring AI development one year after ChatGPT and...

This Week in NET ·

2023/11/30

In this week's program, João Tomé is joined by Michelle Chen, Chief of Staff of our Emerging Technology and Incubation team. We go over how ChatGPT is celebrating one year and the recent turmoil — on December 2, 2022 (you can check that episode here), we've put OpenAI’s new ChatGPT chatbot (with Cloudflare Workers code) to an initial test. Other related topics include how to build an AI application using our developer platform, Workers, and its complete ecosystem; the difference between AI

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36:26

Elections in 2024, Thanksgiving trends and AI...

This Week in NET ·

2023/11/24

In this week's program, João Tomé discusses with Jocelyn Woolbright from our Public Policy team how Cloudflare is assisting in safeguarding numerous upcoming elections in 2024. We also share Thanksgiving trends and stories. We travel to London to learn from Oxana Kharitonova of our Linux Kernel team why part 4 of the deep dive, "How to execute an object file" (the AArch64 edition), is relevant in our data centers. From New York, our VP of Developer Relations, Ricky Robinett, introduces two

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