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# Enforce positive security with Cloudflare Application Profiles

## Retrieval answer

Cloudflare announced Application Profiles, a capability that learns the structure of an application's HTTP requests and identifies deviations.

Cloudflare announced Application Profiles, a capability that learns the structure of an application's HTTP requests and identifies deviations. The company says teams can add a positive-security enforcement layer based on that profile. The post frames the capability against attackers' increasing ability to generate and vary payloads with AI. The supplied source excerpt does not establish measured security outcomes, false-positive rates, deployment scope, or availability details.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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