San Francisco, CA, January 13, 2023 – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the safety, efficiency, and reliability firm serving to to construct a greater Internet, has been awarded a $7.2 million contract from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to offer Registry and Authoritative DNS companies to the .gov TLD (Top Level Domain).
“The Internet has made the United States authorities extra accessible for constituents than ever earlier than, whether or not they’re making use of for a passport, studying well being and security suggestions for his or her communities, or reaching out to a consultant,” mentioned Matthew Prince, co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare. “Having a dependable and safe DNS for presidency companies is vital to instill belief in all .gov exercise, and dealing with us to realize this can be a testomony to the reliability and safety of the Cloudflare community.”
CISA is the nation’s danger advisor, working with companions to defend in opposition to at present’s threats and collaborating to construct safer and resilient infrastructure for the longer term. CISA builds the nation’s capability to defend in opposition to cyber assaults by offering cybersecurity instruments, incident response capabilities, and evaluation companies to safeguard the Federal IT enterprise, state and native companions, and programs that help nationwide vital features.
DNS is a core Internet service that’s foundational to the safety of the purposes that sit on prime of it. CISA turned to Cloudflare to offer registry and DNS companies to fulfill the necessity for extremely accessible DNS companies that improve resilience and simplify safety operations for .gov area customers. CISA makes .gov domains accessible for free of charge to US-based authorities organizations, however it takes greater than registering a site to place it on the Internet. DNS companies information guests to the positioning. The .gov TLD registry and DNS companies can be found to all bona fide U.S.-based authorities organizations.
With this contract, Cloudflare will present managed title servers for the .gov zone and authoritative DNS internet hosting for .gov domains. Cloudflare will help CISA’s targets:
- Reducing the assault floor of .gov-related infrastructure and authorities organizations
- Automating delicate parts of DNS safety administration, setting DNS data that make it arduous to efficiently impersonate the federal government in e-mail by default, and providing new options
- Gaining visibility to raised detect and stop sure DNS ecosystem points as a substitute of reacting to them
Cloudflare just lately achieved FedRAMP reasonable authorization and is obtainable on the FedRAMP market. Cloudflare offers safety, efficiency, and reliability companies by its world community to over 40 United States Federal Government companies. In 2021, CISA started using Cloudflare to ship a protecting DNS resolver resolution for all Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) companies. Cloudflare is dedicated to supporting vital authorities features, together with the nation’s election infrastructure. Through its Athenian Project, Cloudflare offers companies at no cost to state, county, and native officers administering elections.
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