Cloudflare adds post-quantum support to SASE platform
Cloudflare has become what it says is the first secure access service edge (SASE) solution provider to support post-quantum encryption standards across its entire Cloudflare One SASE platform.
The company has implemented advanced post-quantum encryption across all its major network configurations, to provide a more secure bridge between customers’ corporate environments and its global network. The upgrade is aimed at ensuring organisations can comply with the imperative, issued by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, to upgrade cryptographic algorithms for the post-quantum era by 2030.
It could also help protect organisations from the growing trend of ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ attacks, whereby attackers seek to collect encrypted financial records, health data and other sensitive information and store it until quantum technology has advanced to the extent that current encryption standards become obsolete.
In March last year, Cloudflare implemented post-quantum cryptography support for its flagship Zero Trust Network Access product offering. The company has now added post-quantum support for wide area networking use cases. The solution is configured to quickly and automatically reroute encrypted traffic to the healthiest data centre if another facility becomes unavailable. The implementation also adheres to the latest internet standards to ensure maximal industry-wide interoperability.
Cloudflare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince said with the upgrade, the SASE platform outperforms legacy setups in both speed and stability while also future-proofing network traffic with post-quantum encryption.
“Securing the Internet against future threats shouldn’t be a complex burden, or a reason to fragment the web. Since 2017, we’ve been doing the heavy lifting to bake post-quantum standards directly into the fabric of our network,” he said. “By bringing this protection to our entire SASE platform, we’re making post-quantum security the default — no hardware upgrades, no complex configurations and no added cost. We’re ensuring that the secure connections our customers rely on today stay secure for the long haul.”
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