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Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

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Re: Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

#11
Reading this 2 months after the fact feels a bit late, but I guess it’s better for your stock price if these revelations happen with remediation already in hand?

Since they didn’t really have reason to believe my data was accessed, maybe that’s ok. I know from firsthand experience how hard rotating all your credentials across the whole org is.

Re: Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

#13
Writeups and actions like this from cloudflare are exactly why I trust them with my data and my business.

Yes, they aren’t perfect. They do some things that I disagree with.

But overall they prove themselves worthy of my trust, specifically because of the engineering mindset that the company shares, and how serious they take things like this.

Thank you for the blog post!

Re: Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

#14
post #8
post #6

> we were (for the second time) the victim of a compromise of Okta’s systems I'm curious if they're rethinking being on Okta.

The challenge being, who else could possibly handle Cloudflare's requirements? I imagine the next step is to build their own, and that's obviously not an easy pill to swallow.

Why not? Cloudflare already operates a system that can help customers to require SSO for access to their services — why not try to capture more of that vertical by becoming an IdP?

Re: Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

#15
post #8
post #6

> we were (for the second time) the victim of a compromise of Okta’s systems I'm curious if they're rethinking being on Okta.

The challenge being, who else could possibly handle Cloudflare's requirements? I imagine the next step is to build their own, and that's obviously not an easy pill to swallow.

They already run their own zero trust infrastructure for customers, kinda surprised they are not dogfooding it. https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/zero-trust-services/

Re: Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

#17

Writeups and actions like this from cloudflare are exactly why I trust them with my data and my business. Yes, they aren’t perfect. They do some things that I disagree with. But overall they prove themselves worthy of my trust, specifically because of the engineering mindset that the company shares, and how serious they take things like this. Thank you for the blog post!

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Re: Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

#18
post #11

Reading this 2 months after the fact feels a bit late, but I guess it’s better for your stock price if these revelations happen with remediation already in hand? Since they didn’t really have reason to believe my data was accessed, maybe that’s ok. I know from firsthand experience how hard rotating all your credentials across the whole org is.

The final security report was only released yesterday, and the amount of work they did to make sure all of their systems were secure after the incident was A Lot; two months is pretty quick for a project of that scale IMO.

Re: Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

#20
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The challenge being, who else could possibly handle Cloudflare's requirements? I imagine the next step is to build their own, and that's obviously not an easy pill to swallow.

They already run their own zero trust infrastructure for customers, kinda surprised they are not dogfooding it. https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/zero-trust-services/

Did you read the article?

They are using zero trust and explained that it's why the scope of the security incident was extremely limited.

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