Cloudflare Managed Defense
Expert-led threat monitoring and response
Your security team is outnumbered. Attacks are faster, more targeted, and increasingly difficult to distinguish from normal traffic noise. Most teams lack the bandwidth to review every alert, tune every rule, and respond decisively when a real incident hits — at any hour.
Cloudflare Managed Defense (CMD) closes that gap.
Our Cloudforce One engineers become an extension
of your team: monitoring your environment 24/7, building detection logic tailored to your specific traffic and infrastructure, and taking immediate action when real threats emerge — so your team doesn't have to.
About Cloudflare Managed Defense services
Tailored detection rules
Custom alerting logic engineered for your environment — not generic OWASP signatures or off-the-shelf thresholds.
Direct engagement and prioritization
Every alert is triaged within 30 minutes, with a tracked case update sent directly to your team.
< 30-minute response SLA
A contractual guarantee on urgent security incidents — not a best-effort target.
On-call support for active attacks
When you're facing a critical incident, our team jumps in to investigate, recommend mitigations, and implement rules.
Monthly security reporting
Regular summaries of threats detected, rules deployed, and recommendations — so you can demonstrate security posture evolution to leadership and compliance teams.
Standardize your Cloudflare security operations
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24/7 coverage without the headcount
Get continuous monitoring and expert response without hiring, training, or building an in-house security team.
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Expert-grade detection from day one
CMD engineers configure tailored detection rules during onboarding. No months-long tuning cycle. No ramp-up period.
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Your team, refocused on what matters
CMD handles the alerts, the false positives, and the 3am incidents. Your security team gets back to strategic work.
Cloudflare Managed Defense key features:
Core Applications
Network
Core Applications
Network
Supported Cloudflare Products
Core Applications
- DDoS
- Rate Limiting
- WAF
- Bot Management (beta)
- Turnstile (beta)
Network
- Magic Transit
- Cloudflare Network Firewall
- Advanced TCP & DNS protection
What our customers are saying
"The support with Cloudflare is great. It feels like we’re working with another HubSpot team. They really seem to care, they take things seriously. I’ve filed cases and gotten responses back in under a minute. The quality of the responses is just a night and day difference."
-Ken Breeman
Technical Lead, Infrastructure, Security & Networking, HubSpot
What our customers are saying
"Cloudflare wins on its smart and scalable solutions, as well as its impressive customer support. Unlike local partners whose support desks operate on office hours, Cloudflare gives us round-the-clock support."
-Tanapol Nearunchorn
Technical Director, Wongnai
What our customers are saying
"With the support of Cloudflare, we were able to handle the demand during this shopping season and deliver lightning-fast responses to shoppers globally."
-Charles Ng
Production Engineering Manager, Shopify
About Cloudforce One
Driven by a mission to help defend the Internet, Cloudforce One leverages telemetry from Cloudflare’s global network — which protects approximately 20% of the web — to drive threat research and operational response, protecting critical systems for millions of organizations worldwide.
