Cloudflare Gateway - Secure Web Gateway

Gateway

Secure Internet browsing without disruptions

Protect employee web browsing, block breach-causing threats, and discover shadow IT with a cloud-native, low-latency secure web gateway (SWG). Powered by visibility into ~20% of the web, Cloudflare’s network scale secures your team everywhere they work.

Faster Internet access

Eliminate the sluggish performance of traditional web security. Cloudflare’s single-pass inspection and no traffic backhauling means secure browsing without slowdowns.

Multi-layered threat protection

Stop attacks before they disrupt your business. Real-time visibility across massive daily DNS and HTTP telemetry feeds Cloudflare’s threat detection models to help catch and neutralize more risks.

Unified visibility and control

Gain holistic oversight of your Internet traffic across users, devices, and physical locations. Easily build effective security policies with predefined categories, intuitive configuration, plus AI assistance.

Fast and secure by default

Cloudflare Gateway is built on 1.1.1.1, one of the world's largest and fastest DNS resolvers, designed for uncompromising privacy and speed.

Gateway

You can use Gateway to:

See documentation

Secure hybrid work

Protect both “work-from-anywhere” users and branch offices alike from malware, ransomware, and other online cyber threats.

Secure guest Wi-Fi

Defend against cyber threats, enforce acceptable use policies, and optimize visitor experiences on guest Wi-Fi networks.

Discover shadow IT

Get visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS, cloud, and AI usage, then block risky apps or redirect users to approved alternatives.

Protect sensitive data

Regain full forward-proxy visibility and control over sensitive data across web, SaaS, and private apps when SWG is combined with DLP profiles.

EQS Group

To protect Internet browsing, EQS applies Cloudflare’s DNS filtering to block employees from reaching harmful and inappropriate domains and IPs. This is a common, lightweight method to strengthen defenses against malware, ransomware, phishing, and other cyber threats.

Frequently asked questions

Cloudflare Gateway is a cloud-native secure web gateway (SWG) that protects employees and devices from online threats like malware and ransomware. It provides multi-layered threat protection, including DNS, HTTP, and network filtering, to secure Internet traffic for both in-office and remote "work-from-anywhere" users.

No. Unlike legacy web security solutions that cause latency by backhauling traffic to centralized data centers, Cloudflare Gateway uses single-pass inspection. Built on 1.1.1.1, one of the world's fastest DNS resolvers, it inspects and secures traffic at the network edge to ensure high-speed browsing without disruptions.

Gateway helps block malware, ransomware, phishing, DNS tunneling, command-and-control callbacks, and zero-day threats. It uses multi-layered detection powered by real-time DNS and HTTP telemetry from trillions of daily requests, combined with machine learning threat models.

Cloudflare Gateway provides unified oversight into an organization's Internet traffic to help manage sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS, cloud, and AI tools. IT and security teams can use this visibility to discover shadow IT, block risky applications, or safely redirect users to approved alternatives.

Yes. Cloudflare Gateway can be applied to guest Wi-Fi networks and branch offices to defend against cyber threats and optimize visitor performance. Administrators can easily build HTTP and DNS policies using predefined categories to enforce acceptable use rules on guest networks.

When combined with Cloudflare’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) profiles, Gateway acts as a forward proxy to provide complete visibility over sensitive data. Security teams can build granular HTTP policies that inspect traffic and block sensitive data from being leaked or uploaded to unapproved web, SaaS, or private apps.