Security News > 2022 > November > Cloudflare finds a way through China's network defences

Cloudflare has found a way to extend some of its services across the Great Firewall and into mainland China.

"Packets crossing the China border often experience reachability, congestion, loss, and latency challenges on their way to an origin server outside of China."

Those glitches mean security and IT teams "Can also struggle to enforce consistent policies across this traffic, since many aspects of China networking are often treated separately from the rest of an organization's global network because of their unique challenges," the pair wrote.

To address those challenges, Cloudflare has worked with unidentified "Local partners" who "Route local traffic to its destination within China, and global traffic across a secure link to the closest available Cloudflare datacenter on the other side of the Chinese border."

Allowing Cloudflare to make operations in China just a little easier will be welcomed by multinational organizations and by Chinese businesses that operate offshore.

"We've heard from both China-based and multinational organizations that are excited to have the full suite of Cloudflare One functions available across China to achieve a full SASE architecture just a few milliseconds from everywhere their users and applications are in the world," today's post states.

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