Hack The Box chose Cloudflare to consolidate security, performance, and developer tools on a single platform, enabling scalable protection and global delivery without operational sprawl.

Cloudflare CDN and edge caching cut page load times by 30% to 45% for users in 170 countries, improving time-to-first-byte and reducing origin load during peak periods.

Cloudflare Access provides zero-trust, identity-based access to Hack The Box’s internal apps for its 300+ employees, simplifying secure remote work and replacing traditional VPNs.

Hack The Box, founded in 2017, is a global cyber readiness platform with millions of members and hundreds of enterprise customers, offering threat-informed learning paths and live-fire simulations to build offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.

Cloudflare Workers power edge compute for roughly 25 million monthly requests, delivering edge routing, access control, and traffic shaping with high reliability during bursts.

Overall, the partnership enables Hack The Box to absorb attacks, deliver low-latency global delivery, and expand regions and capabilities without adding significant infrastructure complexity.

The architecture is designed for scalable growth, with plans to expand edge workflows and deepen a zero-trust posture as the platform expands to ensure secure, reliable, high-performance experiences at scale.

Cloudflare automatically mitigates volumetric and application-layer DDoS threats, blocking millions of threats and keeping the platform stable during spikes and events.

From the start, Cloudflare services — including WAF, DDoS mitigation, Rate Limiting, Bot Management, CDN, Workers, and Zero Trust — are connected via Cloudflare’s programmable global network.

Thiseas Meggos, Hack The Box’s VP of Infrastructure, notes that Cloudflare’s platform scales with traffic and attack surface while reducing operational complexity and meeting security needs.