Cloudflare for AI: Pioneering a Secure Future for Businesses
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new era for businesses across the globe. From automated agents handling intricate workflows to enhanced search capabilities, AI is revolutionizing how we access and summarize information. We’re witnessing the early stages of a significant transformation in our interaction with the Internet, and with it comes a heightened focus on security and data privacy. As such, navigating this new landscape poses unique challenges.
At Cloudflare, we are committed to crafting a more efficient and secure Internet. While the future of AI remains uncertain, its efficacy hinges on reliability and safety.
Introducing Cloudflare for AI
Today, we’re excited to unveil Cloudflare for AI, a comprehensive suite of tools designed to assist businesses, developers, and content creators in safely implementing and managing AI technologies at scale. This initiative represents more than just a compilation of tools; it symbolizes our commitment to prioritizing AI in our future development efforts.
What Can Cloudflare for AI Offer?
Whether you’re creating a fully customized AI application or utilizing vendor-provided SaaS solutions, Cloudflare is equipped to support your deployment, storage, monitoring, and security needs. Let’s explore the offerings tailored for developers, security teams, and content creators.
Build & Deploy
With features like Workers AI and the newly launched AI Agents SDK, Cloudflare simplifies the scalable development and deployment of AI applications directly on our extensive network. This proximity to users enhances performance, resulting in low-latency experiences for end-users. Many of our customers leverage R2, our storage solution, to house their AI training data without incurring egress fees, ultimately propelling the development of next-generation AI models.
We’re dedicated to bolstering our global AI inference infrastructure and establishing Cloudflare as the ideal platform for developing AI agents. Our composable AI architecture contains essential components that allow AI applications to achieve real-time communication, sustain state persistence, execute long-running tasks, and automate repetitive scheduling.
Protect and Control
After deploying your AI application—whether through Cloudflare, Workers AI, or your own infrastructure—AI Gateway equips you with insights into costs, usage, latency, and overall performance.
To augment security, our Firewall for AI ensures that every interaction remains free from injection attacks and that personally identifiable information (PII) is safeguarded from input and output processes.
Challenges for Security Teams
The rise of AI also brings new challenges for security teams, who must focus on ensuring secure application usage for both internal employees and external users. The protection of PII is now more critical than ever.
Discovering Applications
You can’t secure what you don’t know. Our Firewall for AI includes a discovery feature, allowing security personnel to identify AI applications in use throughout the organization without needing extensive surveys.
Control PII Flow and Access
Once applications are discovered, teams can implement Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), ensuring that only authorized personnel can access designated applications. Furthermore, with Firewall for AI, you can monitor for unauthorized submission or extraction of PII.
Protect Against Exploits
Recently, malicious actors have targeted AI applications with innovative attack methods. Fortunately, our Firewall for AI and broader Application Security portfolio provide defenses against many exploits identified in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM (Large Language Model) applications, such as prompt injections and sensitive data disclosures.
Safeguarding Conversations
Integrated within both the AI Gateway and Firewall for AI is Llama Guard, ensuring that inputs and outputs of your AI applications adhere to your internal guidelines concerning toxicity and sentiment.
Supporting Content Creators
AI technologies also pose risks for content creators, as sophisticated models can generate high-quality text, images, and videos. To help safeguard your work, we’ve developed tools tailored for creators.
Monitoring Access
Through our AI Audit dashboard, you can monitor activity on your site, gaining insight into who is accessing your content for AI training purposes. We continuously classify and add new AI crawler vendors to our records.
Blocking Unwanted Access
If you find AI crawlers that disregard protocols like robots.txt, you can swiftly block such access with a single click—especially useful for customers on our self-serve plans. Larger organizations can take it a step further by employing our Bot Management solution to create tailored filters.
Making AI Security Simple
If you’re already using Cloudflare or are prioritizing the deployment and protection of AI applications, reach out to discover how our suite of AI tools can address your unique needs. Our mission to ensure that AI is scalable, safe, and resilient aligns perfectly with our overarching goal of maintaining a secure Internet.
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