Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

One of the biggest cybersecurity myths out there? VPNs equal complete privacy. Here's what you need to know: A VPN hides your IP address, but it doesn't make you anonymous. Your VPN provider still has your data and logs and can hand them over if requested. Websites still track you through cookies, fingerprints, and browser activity. On the latest episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast, João Pedro Gonçalves and Michael Tremante break down why VPNs aren't the silver bullet they're marketed to be.

In this episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast with Cloudflare, host Mark Dembo is joined by João Pedro Gonçalves, CISO and Managing Director at EQT Group, and Michael Tremante, Senior Director of Product at Cloudflare. Together, they explore critical security trends for 2025, from AI-powered threats to regulatory changes to practical strategies for balancing protection with usability. What You’ll Learn.

Azure Functions provide a scalable and event-driven way to build serverless APIs, but securing them requires continuous monitoring and threat detection. By integrating Astra’s API Security Platform with Azure Functions, you can proactively identify vulnerabilities, monitor API traffic, and protect your serverless applications from real-world attacks.

Cloud attacks only take ten minutes, leaving a fraction of that time to investigate and initiate a response. Adversaries already have a head start. Cloud has changed the game and attacks are faster than ever. So to stand a chance, you need to move at cloud speed. Sysdig redefines Cloud Detection and Response by enabling five-minute investigations for even the most complex attacks - empowering our customers with rapid insights and comprehensive visibility across their cloud estates.

Cloudflare API Shield provides many capabilities across API discovery & management, posture management, and runtime protection. This demo highlights some of these capabilities including machine learning discovery, sequence analysis and mitigation, schema learning, schema validation, volumetric abuse protection, organizational / user-created labels, risk labels, sensitive data detection, and posture management.

Cloudflare DDoS Web Protection provides automatic, intelligent DDoS mitigation from the edge of Cloudflare's global network — mitigating most attacks in three seconds. Advanced Adaptive DDoS Protection learns your unique traffic patterns and adapts to them to provide better protection against sophisticated DDoS attacks. Learn more.

Cloud misconfigurations are among the top causes of breaches. Astra’s Cloud Vulnerability Scanner helps you identify and fix security gaps in AWS, GCP, and Azure environments. Key capabilities: Enable continuous pentest as scale with Astra.