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Secure Internet browsing without disruptions

Protect employee web browsing, block breach-causing threats, and discover shadow IT with a cloud-native, low-latency secure web gateway (SWG). Powered by visibility into ~20% of the web, Cloudflare’s network scale secures your team everywhere they work.

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Faster Internet access

Eliminate the sluggish performance of traditional web security. Cloudflare’s single-pass inspection and no traffic backhauling means secure browsing without slowdowns.

Multi-layered threat protection

Stop attacks before they disrupt your business. Real-time visibility across massive daily DNS and HTTP telemetry feeds Cloudflare’s threat detection models to help catch and neutralize more risks.

Unified visibility and control

Gain holistic oversight of your Internet traffic across users, devices, and physical locations. Easily build effective security policies with predefined categories, intuitive configuration, plus AI assistance.

Fast and secure by default

Cloudflare Gateway is built on 1.1.1.1, one of the world's largest and fastest DNS resolvers, designed for uncompromising privacy and speed.

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You can use Gateway to:

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Secure hybrid work

Protect both “work-from-anywhere” users and branch offices alike from malware, ransomware, and other online cyber threats.

Secure guest Wi-Fi

Defend against cyber threats, enforce acceptable use policies, and optimize visitor experiences on guest Wi-Fi networks.

Discover shadow IT

Get visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS, cloud, and AI usage, then block risky apps or redirect users to approved alternatives.

Protect sensitive data

Regain full forward-proxy visibility and control over sensitive data across web, SaaS, and private apps when SWG is combined with DLP profiles.

EQS Group

To protect Internet browsing, EQS applies Cloudflare’s DNS filtering to block employees from reaching harmful and inappropriate domains and IPs. This is a common, lightweight method to strengthen defenses against malware, ransomware, phishing, and other cyber threats.

Frequently asked questions

Cloudflare Gateway is a cloud-native secure web gateway (SWG) that protects employees and devices from online threats like malware and ransomware. It provides multi-layered threat protection, including DNS, HTTP, and network filtering, to secure Internet traffic for both in-office and remote "work-from-anywhere" users.
No. Unlike legacy web security solutions that cause latency by backhauling traffic to centralized data centers, Cloudflare Gateway uses single-pass inspection. Built on 1.1.1.1, one of the world's fastest DNS resolvers, it inspects and secures traffic at the network edge to ensure high-speed browsing without disruptions.
Gateway helps block malware, ransomware, phishing, DNS tunneling, command-and-control callbacks, and zero-day threats. It uses multi-layered detection powered by real-time DNS and HTTP telemetry from trillions of daily requests, combined with machine learning threat models.
Cloudflare Gateway provides unified oversight into an organization's Internet traffic to help manage sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS, cloud, and AI tools. IT and security teams can use this visibility to discover shadow IT, block risky applications, or safely redirect users to approved alternatives.
Yes. Cloudflare Gateway can be applied to guest Wi-Fi networks and branch offices to defend against cyber threats and optimize visitor performance. Administrators can easily build HTTP and DNS policies using predefined categories to enforce acceptable use rules on guest networks.
When combined with Cloudflare’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) profiles, Gateway acts as a forward proxy to provide complete visibility over sensitive data. Security teams can build granular HTTP policies that inspect traffic and block sensitive data from being leaked or uploaded to unapproved web, SaaS, or private apps.

Powerful primitives, seamlessly integrated

Built on systems powering 20% of the Internet, Gateway runs on the same infrastructure Cloudflare uses to build Cloudflare. Enterprise-grade reliability, security, and performance are standard.
Compute
Browser Run Automated browsers
Containers Any language, anywhere
Durable Objects Stateful compute
Sandboxes Secure code execution
Workers Global serverless functions
Workers for Platforms Programmable Platform Solutions
Workflows Process orchestration
Storage
Artifacts Git-native versioned storage
D1 Serverless SQL
Data Platform Ingest, Catalog & Query
Hyperdrive Global databases
Queues Message processing
R2 Egress-free storage
KV Ultra-fast key-value storage
AI
Agents Build stateful AI agents
AI Gateway AI observability
AI Search Instant retrieval
Vectorize Vector database
Workers AI Edge AI models
SASE / Zero Trust
SASE Cloudflare SASE platform
Access Zero trust access to private resources
CASB SaaS and cloud posture
Data Loss Prevention Protect sensitive data
Gateway Web filtering
Browser Isolation Secure web browsing
WAN Cloud-delivered networking
Email Security Phishing protection
Security
DDoS Protection Mitigation Solutions
Rate Limiting Abuse prevention
SSL Secure Your Site with SSL
Turnstile A CAPTCHA Replacement Solution
WAF Web Application Firewall
Magic Transit DDoS Protection for Networks
Client-Side Security Prevent browser supply chain attacks
Bot Management Block bad bots
Network & Content Delivery
CDN Faster delivery & caching
DNS Fast DNS
Load Balancing Zero downtime
TURN / SFU Real-time infra
Analytics Web Performance & Security

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