Cloudflare One has a new suite of AI zero-trust security tools. Read our article to learn more about Cloudflare’s latest announcement and release.
Cloudflare announced on May 15, 2023 a new suite of zero-trust security tools for companies to leverage the benefits of AI technologies while mitigating risks. The company integrated the new technologies to expand its existing Cloudflare One product, which is a secure access service edge zero trust network-as-a-service platform.
The Cloudflare One platform’s new tools and features are Cloudflare Gateway, service tokens, Cloudflare Tunnel, Cloudflare Data Loss Prevention and Cloudflare’s cloud access security broker.
“Enterprises and small teams alike share a common concern: They want to use these AI tools without also creating a data loss incident,” Sam Rhea, the vice president of product at Cloudflare, told TechRepublic.
He explained that AI innovation is more valuable to companies when they help users solve unique problems. “But that often involves the potentially sensitive context or data of that problem,” Rhea added.
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With the new suite of AI security tools, Cloudflare One now allows teams of any size to safely use the excellent tools without management headaches or performance challenges. The tools are designed for companies to gain visibility into AI and measure AI tools’ usage, prevent data loss and manage integrations.Cloudflare Gateway
With Cloudflare Gateway, companies can visualize all the AI apps and services employees are experimenting with. Software budget decision-makers can leverage the visibility to make more effective software license purchases.
In addition, the tools give administrators critical privacy and security information, such as internet traffic and threat intelligence visibility, network policies, open internet privacy exposure risks and individual devices’ traffic (Figure A).
Figure AService tokens
Some companies have realized that in order to make generative AI more efficient and accurate, they must share training data with the AI and grant plugin access to the AI service. For companies to be able to connect these AI models with their data, Cloudflare developed service tokens.
Service tokens give administrators a clear log of all API requests and grant them full control over the specific services that can access AI training data (Figure B). Additionally, it allows administrators to revoke tokens easily with a single click when building ChatGPT plugins for internal and external use.
Figure B
Once service tokens are created, administrators can add policies that can, for example, verify the service token, country, IP address or an mTLS certificate. Policies can be created to require users to authenticate, such as completing an MFA prompt before accessing sensitive training data or services.Cloudflare Tunnel
Cloudflare Tunnel allows teams to connect the AI tools with the infrastructure without affecting their firewalls. This tool creates an encrypted, outbound-only connection to Cloudflare’s network, checking every request against the configured access rules (Figure C).
Figure CCloudflare Data Loss Prevention
While administrators can visualize, configure access, secure, block or allow AI services using security and privacy tools, human error can also play a role in data loss, data leaks or privacy breaches.
