San Francisco, California, January 13, 2023 – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE:NET), the security, performance and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, has been awarded a $7.2 million contract by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide DNS and registry services authoritative to the .gov TLD (Top Level Domain).
“The Internet has made US government more accessible than ever for voters, whether they’re applying for a passport, learning health and safety advice for their communities, or reaching out to a representative,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cloudflare. “Having reliable and secure DNS for government agencies is critical to instilling trust in all .gov businesses, and working with us to achieve this is a testament to the reliability and security of the Cloudflare network.”
CISA is the nation’s risk advisor, working with partners to defend against today’s threats and collaborating to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future. CISA builds the nation’s ability to defend against cyberattacks by providing cybersecurity tools, incident response capabilities, and assessment services to safeguard the federal IT enterprise, state and local partners, and the systems that support critical national functions.
DNS is a vital Internet service that is critical to the security of the applications sitting on it. CISA turned to Cloudflare to provide DNS and registry services to address the need for highly available DNS services that improve resiliency and streamline security operations for users of .gov domains. CISA makes .gov domains freely available to US-based government organizations, but registering a domain isn’t enough to put it on the Internet. DNS services guide visitors to the site. The .gov TLD registry and DNS services are available to all bona fide US-based government organizations.
Under this agreement, Cloudflare will provide managed name servers for the .gov zone and authoritative DNS hosting for .gov domain names. Cloudflare will support CISA’s goals:
- Reducing the attack surface of .gov-related government organizations and infrastructure
- Automating sensitive parts of DNS security management, setting up DNS records that make it difficult to successfully impersonate government in email by default, and offering new features
- Gain visibility to better detect and prevent certain DNS ecosystem issues instead of reacting to them
Cloudflare recently has received FedRAMP moderate clearance and is available on FedRAMP Market. Cloudflare provides security, performance and reliability services through its global network to more than 40 US federal government agencies. In 2021, CISA began using Cloudflare to provide a secure DNS resolution solution for all Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. Cloudflare is committed to supporting critical government functions, including the nation’s election infrastructure. Through his Athenian Project, Cloudflare provides free services to state, county and local officials who manage elections.
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