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IT professionals and developers that want secure and encrypted tunneling software
About Cloudflare Tunnel
From the moment an application is deployed, developers and IT spend time locking it down — configuring ACLs, rotating IP addresses, and using clunky solutions like GRE tunnels. There’s a simpler and more secure way to protect your applications and web servers from direct attacks: Cloudflare Tunnel. Ensure your server is safe, no matter where it’s running: public cloud, private cloud, Kubernetes cluster, or even a Mac mini under your TV. Cloudflare Tunnel is tunneling software that lets you quickly secure and encrypt application traffic to any type of infrastructure, so you can hide your web server IP addresses, block direct attacks, and get back to delivering great applications. The Tunnel daemon creates an encrypted tunnel between your origin web server and Cloudflare’s nearest data center, all without opening any public inbound ports.
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Cloudflare
Founded: 2009
United States
www.cloudflare.com/products/tunnel/
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