Cloudflare Uses an AI Harness to Probe and Harden Its WAF

Cloudflare tested its Web Application Firewall by using AI models inside a Python harness to mutate previously blocked attacks. The system produced 1,107 attempts, which led to 49 findings and three firewall rule updates after human triage. Security engineers can adopt this harness pattern to safely test defenses against adaptive payload variations.

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