Cloudflare explains what true programmability means for their SASE platform, Cloudflare One, and how it enables real-time custom logic within security policies.
- •True programmability goes beyond APIs and webhooks: it means intercepting a security event, enriching it with external context, and acting on it in real time before a request completes
- •Cloudflare's global network (330+ cities, within ~50ms of 95% of internet users) runs SASE and Developer Platform side by side on the same infrastructure, making services composable by design
- •Customers can invoke Cloudflare Workers inline with SASE policies to call external risk APIs, inject dynamic headers, validate browser attributes, or route traffic based on custom business logic
- •Upcoming "programmability extensions" will introduce managed and custom actions natively integrated into Cloudflare One Gateway HTTP policies
- •A real-world example demonstrates a scheduled Worker that automates device session revocation by querying the Devic
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