Cloudflare Publishes Fifth Annual Impact Report
Report details key milestones in helping secure democratic elections worldwide, protect independent journalism and nonprofits from AI scraping, and create a more sustainable Internet
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE:NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today published its fifth annual Impact Report showcasing its commitment to building a faster, more secure, and more sustainable Internet for everyone. Highlights include defending democratic institutions from cyberthreats, empowering journalists and nonprofits to control how AI uses their original content, and promoting digital inclusion and economic development through better access to AI.
"Our mission—to help build a better Internet—is the driving force behind everything we do," said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare. "In 2025, we took critical steps to further that mission by making our products free and accessible to those who need them most, from journalists facing attacks to startups and developers around the world working on the next generation of AI-native applications. A principled, accessible, and sustainable Internet is not just a goal; it's our responsibility."
Key milestones highlighted in Cloudflare's 2025 Impact Report include:
- Protected 3,000+ vulnerable Internet properties from an average of 9.9 billion cyber attacks per month through Project Galileo: Journalists, human rights defenders, and humanitarian organizations are often targets of sophisticated cyber attacks designed to silence them. Cloudflare's Project Galileo shields these public interest groups across 120+ countries, blocking a record volume of attacks against independent news organizations in 2025—an average of 290 million attacks per day.
- Helped nonprofits and independent media better protect their websites from unwanted AI crawlers—for free: To help local news outlets survive and thrive in a challenging digital landscape, Cloudflare has incorporated Bot Management and AI Crawl Control in its package of free services for entities in Project Galileo and has committed to train news outlets on new AI tools. These tools will help independent news websites compete in an AI-powered world and empower them to better control how AI services access and use their content.
- Secured elections across 33 U.S. states and 7 countries against major cyberthreats: Democratic elections are critical infrastructure, and the Athenian Project provides our highest level of security to defend the websites and systems of those running elections. The project now protects 441 state and local government Internet properties, and during the critical period between September and November 2024 successfully blocked 200 million DDoS attacks directed at those sites. Cloudflare also helped secure the Moldovan Parliamentary elections despite a significant foreign influence campaign and persistent cyberattacks against Moldovan government institutions.
- Achieved key emissions commitments, offsetting 31,000 metric tons of CO2e: Cloudflare successfully completed its commitment to offset or remove all emissions associated with powering its network from its launch up until its first renewable energy purchase in 2018. This was accomplished by investing in verified projects totaling approximately 31,000 metric tons of CO2e.
- Committed to training the next generation of technology leaders with a major focus on AI application: Recognizing the need for a diverse and skilled future workforce, Cloudflare plans to hire 1,111 interns over the course of 2026. This initiative will place a special emphasis on encouraging the creative and widespread application of Artificial Intelligence across various disciplines.
Overall, Cloudflare has provided more than $19 million in donated products and services in 2025 through these Impact programs. To learn more, please read the full 2025 Impact Report.
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE:NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare's connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world's largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
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