CloudFlare
Cloudflare is a leading web performance and security company that provides a global cloud platform to deliver a faster, more secure, and more reliable experience for viewing websites and web applications.
Features
- Global content delivery network (CDN)
- Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection
- Web application firewall (WAF)
- SSL/TLS encryption
- Authoritative DNS services
- Intelligent traffic routing
- Bot management
- Application load balancing
- Edge computing
- Security analytics and insights
Benefits
- Fast via global CDN, reduced latency.
- Integrated security: WAF, DDoS, bot protection.
- High uptime with Anycast, failover.
- Reduced bandwidth costs via caching.
- Simple DNS change for integration.
- Massively scalable distributed architecture.
- Real-time traffic, threat, performance analytics.
- Optimisation tools: images, code, mobile.
- Serverless edge computing
- Lower infrastructure costs than appliances.
Pricing
£100 a licence
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
4 4 2 3 4 0 0 6 5 9 8 5 1 0 8
Contact
FullProxy Ltd
Chris Templeton / Ewan Ferguson
Telephone: 0141 291 5500
Email: g-cloud@fullproxy.com
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Details provided within supplied documentation
- System requirements
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- Requirements dependent upon environment in which products are deployed
- See vendor website or documentation for details
- Minimum requirements are available at Cloudfare.com
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support response times
- Response time SLAs are negotiable with the client
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Yes, at an extra cost
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- N/A
- Web chat accessibility testing
- N/A
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- Access to CloudFlare Support differs with contract purchased. CloudFlare Support is available 24x7x365.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Pre-sales consultancy Online Training User documentation
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- No user data is retained as part of the service.
- End-of-contract process
- Renewal notice issued 90 days prior to contract end date.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Using the web interface
- Vendor can provide documentation on the web interface upon demand.
- Web interface accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.1 AAA
- Web interface accessibility testing
- N/A
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- Admin users can perform a wide range of tasks through the API, enabling automation, integration with other systems, and custom scripting to manage their cloud services.
- API automation tools
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- Ansible
- Chef
- Terraform
- Puppet
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- Open API (also known as Swagger)
- Command line interface
- Yes
- Command line interface compatibility
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- Linux or Unix
- Windows
- MacOS
- Other
- Using the command line interface
- Please refer to vendor documentation for example-https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/tutorials/cli/
Scaling
- Scaling available
- Yes
- Scaling type
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- Automatic
- Manual
- Independence of resources
- The underlying resources (CPU and Memory) are under the control of the client and can be extended if required. The product is sold based on per instance therefore a client may have to purchase multiple instances if usage goes beyond initially anticipated levels.
- Usage notifications
- Yes
- Usage reporting
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- API
- SMS
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Cloudflare
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Managed by a third party
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
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- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Backup and recovery
- Backup and recovery
- No
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Availability of the deployed service is the responsibility of the customer
- Approach to resilience
- This information can be made available upon request
- Outage reporting
- This information can be made available upon request.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Role based access control
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
- Devices users manage the service through
- Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- QMS International Ltd
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 30/11/2022
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- Security governance policies available upon request
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- CloudFlare can provide documentation on their configuration and change management approach on request.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- CloudFlare can provide documentation on their Vulnerability Management approach on request.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- CloudFlare can provide documentation on their proactive monitoring approach on request.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- CloudFlare can provide documentation on their Incident Management approach on request.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Separation between users
- Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
- No
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- Yes
- Description of energy efficient datacentres
- FullProxy's EU Code of Conduct for Energy Efficient datacentres can be provided upon request.
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestCovid-19 recovery
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestTackling economic inequality
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestEqual opportunity
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestWellbeing
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon request
Pricing
- Price
- £100 a licence
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- A free or trial version/PoC can be requested from FullProxy. More details can be provided upon request.