Audience
Cloudflare Training is essential for IT professionals, web developers, and cybersecurity experts looking to enhance website security, performance, and overall digital resilience.
What You’ll Learn
In this course, you’ll start with the fundamentals of Cloudflare, including its architecture and core security capabilities, before exploring the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) model and Web Application Firewall (WAF) implementation. You’ll learn to set up and deploy the Cloudflare platform, configure security policies, filtering rules, and protection mechanisms, and create custom WAF rules to defend against specific threats. Along the way, you’ll gain a clear understanding of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them, discover how DDoS attacks work and how to stop them, and get introduced to Kali Linux and its penetration testing tools for simulating real-world attacks.
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Cloudflare
• What is Cloudflare?
• Key Features and Benefits
• How Cloudflare Works
Module 2: Getting Started with Cloudflare
• Initial Setup Steps
• Adding a Website
Module 3: DNS Management
• DNS Overview
• Zone Setup and Configuration
• Managing DNS Records
• Importing DNS Records
• Exporting DNS Records
Module 4: Firewall & Security Rules
• Understanding Firewalls
• Firewall Rule Actions
• Creating & Managing Firewall Rules
Module 5: SSL/TLS Management
• Creating and Revoking Client Certificates
• Enabling Mutual TLS (mTLS)
• Reviewing mTLS Rules
• SSL for SaaS Applications
Module 6: Bot Management
• Overview of Bot Management
• Bot Fight Mode and Bot Tags
• How Bot Scores are Generated
• JA3 Fingerprinting
• Challenge Solve Rate (CSR)
• Bot Analytics & Enterprise Insights
Module 7: Cloudflare Magic Transit
• Magic Transit Overview
• Probe Construction
• Traffic Steering Techniques
