Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer and Data Protection Officer, for a wide-ranging conversation about privacy in 2026 and how the role has evolved in the age of AI.

AI is powerful and organizations continue to adopt AI at a rapid pace, but without protections in place, it’s risky. In this session, you'll learn about the risks Enterprises face around AI and how Cloudflare provides a layered security approach incorporating AI Security. We’ll walk through how you can secure your AI-powered applications with Cloudflare.

Block sensitive data leaks (like PII and source code) and apply intent-based guardrails to detect and mitigate risky prompts before they reach the model.

See how Cloudflare’s API-based CASB integrates with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to detect and mitigate risks of misconfigurations and data exposure.

If you're more flexible, you're more modern with your technology, the experiment... will be faster." - Lior Gross, CTO at Caliente.mx. Old infrastructure is too costly for AI experiments.

At the start, we also go over some of our recent blog posts.

As we slowly settle into the new rhythms of 2026, we are reminded that security starts with people The focus should always be on "bringing people along, not just implementing technology" to help keep our organizations future-ready.

Find out why building resilience now is critical and what Cloudflare is doing to ensure customers are protected.

In this end-of-year episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Omer Yoachimik, Senior Product Manager for DDoS Protection at Cloudflare, to break down the realities of the 2025 DDoS threat landscape — and what’s coming next.

Cybercriminals don't care about borders. So why do we have 12 different regulatory frameworks for the same threat? Olivier Busolini, Group Head of Information Security at Mashreq Bank, voiced the frustration every global CISO feels: "In every country, I have 12 countries at Mashreq. In every country, there is a slightly different or sometimes vastly different requirement that I have to abide to.".