Cybersecurity solutions company Cloudflare has launched Cloudflare for AI, a bunch of tools that help businesses, developers and content creators adopt, deploy and secure AI technologies safely.
“Cloudflare for AI is not just a grouping of tools and features, some of which are new, but also a commitment to focus our future development work with AI in mind,” Michael Tremante, a senior executive of Cloudflare, said.
He said artificial intelligence was transforming businesses — from automated agents performing background workflows, to improved search, to easier access and summarisation of knowledge.
“While we are still early in what is likely going to be a substantial shift in how the world operates, two things are clear: the Internet, and how we interact with it, will change, and the boundaries of security and data privacy have never been more difficult to trace, making security an important topic in this shift,” he said in a blog post, explaining the rationale behind launching the AI tools suite.
For developers
“If you are building an AI application, whether a fully custom application or a vendor-provided hosted or SaaS application, Cloudflare can help you deploy, store, control/observe and protect your AI application from threats,” he said.
“Workers AI and our new AI Agents SDK facilitate the scalable development of AI applications on Cloudflare’s network. The network enhances user experience and efficiency by running AI closer to users, resulting in low-latency and high-performance AI applications,” he said.
Visibility
“Once your application is deployed, be it directly on Cloudflare, using Workers AI, or running on your own infrastructure (cloud or on the premise), Cloudflare’s AI Gateway lets you gain visibility into the cost, usage, latency and overall performance of the application,” he said.
Network security teams now have a new problem. They are supposed to ensure the safe usage of AI applications by internal and external users.
“You can’t protect what you don’t know about. Firewall for AI’s discovery capability lets security teams find AI applications that are being used within the organisation without the need to perform extensive surveys,” he said.
