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Zero trust network access (ZTNA) for your self-hosted and SaaS applications

Provide identity-first, quantum-safe access to your self-hosted apps, SaaS applications, and infrastructure. Govern connections between your workforce, AI agents, and internal data while leaving vulnerable, legacy VPNs behind.

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Mitigate lateral movement

Shrink your attack surface by granting granular, least privilege access per resource rather than relying on risky network-level access. Verify every request based on identity, device posture, and other context.

Simplify management

Streamline ZTNA operations with one-time integrations, composable software connectors, and unified zero trust policies. Centralize policy administration, and use intuitive APIs and Terraform to scale your automation.

Improve team productivity

Make on-premises applications feel just like SaaS apps with smooth, frictionless authentication. Ensure routing and policy enforcement are lightning-fast by leveraging Cloudflare's extensive global network.

Apply “never trust, always verify” — everywhere

Manage access across your internal environment

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You can use Access to:

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Augment or replace your VPN

Traditional VPNs are too risky, inefficient, and slow for modern distributed work. Start augmenting your VPN by offloading critical apps or risky users for better security and an improved end-user experience.

Secure third-party access

Accelerate onboarding for contractors, partners, and unmanaged devices. Authenticate third-party users directly through the browser using clientless access, social identity providers, and one-time PINs.

Accelerate M&A IT integration

Bypass the risks and complexity of a traditional network merge during mergers and acquisitions. Provide secure "Day 1" per-app internal access by easily integrating multiple identity providers from both organizations.

Enable developers with privileged access

Extend zero trust controls to sensitive infrastructure targets, such as SSH and RDP. Ensure privileged technical users can securely access critical infrastructure without disrupting their native DevOps workflows.

Govern AI agents

Centralize, secure, and observe every MCP connection in your organization. Manage AI budgets by user, team, or application and limit frontier model usage to keep AI costs under control.

Delivery Hero

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Being able to onboard new teams quickly and easily shift our new brands onto a consolidated, easily administered platform like Cloudflare improved our efficiency and time-to-market with new products. "

Wilson Tang Director of Engineering, Platform Core Services

Frequently asked questions

Cloudflare Access is a zero trust network access (ZTNA) solution that provides identity-first, quantum-safe access to self-hosted apps, SaaS applications, and infrastructure. Instead of relying on network-level trust, it verifies every request based on user identity, device posture, and context to enforce granular, least-privilege access.
Yes, Cloudflare Access can fully replace or strategically augment legacy VPNs. By offloading critical applications or risky users to Cloudflare’s global network, organizations can shrink their attack surface, mitigate lateral movement, and provide end-users with lightning-fast, frictionless authentication that feels just like using a SaaS app.
Cloudflare Access allows organizations to securely onboard contractors, partners, and unmanaged devices without granting broad network access. It enables clientless, browser-based access to internal applications using flexible authentication methods like social identity providers, one-time PINs, and seamless external identity integration.
Cloudflare Access extends zero trust security to AI workflows by centralizing and observing every Model Context Protocol (MCP) connection in an organization. Administrators can secure self-hosted apps against AI agents, control frontier model usage, and manage AI budgets at the user, team, or application level.
Cloudflare Access bypasses the complexity and security risks of a traditional network merge by offering secure, "Day 1" per-app internal access. It allows IT teams to easily integrate and authenticate multiple Identity Providers (IdPs) from both organizations simultaneously, ensuring continuous productivity without exposing network vulnerabilities.
Cloudflare Access integrates with any SAML or OIDC-compliant identity provider, including pre-built integrations for major enterprise SSO providers, social/consumer IdPs, and Cloudflare itself as an IdP. You can connect multiple IdPs simultaneously to support employees, contractors, partners, and external users with different authentication requirements.

Powerful primitives, seamlessly integrated

Built on systems powering 20% of the Internet, Access run on the same infrastructure Cloudflare uses to build Cloudflare. Enterprise-grade reliability, security, and performance are standard.
Compute
Browser Run Automated browsers
Containers Any language, anywhere
Durable Objects Stateful compute
Sandboxes Secure code execution
Workers Global serverless functions
Workers for Platforms Programmable Platform Solutions
Workflows Process orchestration
Storage
Artifacts Git-native versioned storage
D1 Serverless SQL
Data Platform Ingest, Catalog & Query
Hyperdrive Global databases
Queues Message processing
R2 Egress-free storage
KV Ultra-fast key-value storage
AI
Agents Build stateful AI agents
AI Gateway AI observability
AI Search Instant retrieval
Vectorize Vector database
Workers AI Edge AI models
SASE / Zero Trust
SASE Cloudflare SASE platform
Access Zero trust access to private resources
CASB SaaS and cloud posture
Data Loss Prevention Protect sensitive data
Gateway Web filtering
Browser Isolation Secure web browsing
WAN Cloud-delivered networking
Email Security Phishing protection
Security
DDoS Protection Mitigation Solutions
Rate Limiting Abuse prevention
SSL Secure Your Site with SSL
Turnstile A CAPTCHA Replacement Solution
WAF Web Application Firewall
Magic Transit DDoS Protection for Networks
Client-Side Security Prevent browser supply chain attacks
Bot Management Block bad bots
Network & Content Delivery
CDN Faster delivery & caching
DNS Fast DNS
Load Balancing Zero downtime
TURN / SFU Real-time infra
Analytics Web Performance & Security

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