Cloudflare Ranks #9 in 2026 Cybersecurity Campaigns Index

Part of the 25 Cybersecurity Campaigns That Broke Through index.

Cloudflare ranks #9 in The 25 Cybersecurity Campaigns That Actually Broke Through in 2026, an Everything-PR analysis of the cybersecurity marketing efforts that earned the most attention during the 2026 cycle. Cloudflare's placement is anchored to a single campaign, Internet Under Attack, which the index credits for turning live dashboards into PR engines. The company sits in the upper tier of the 25-brand field, between Google Cloud at #8 and SentinelOne at #10, and within a top 10 led by NordVPN, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks.

What the 2026 Cybersecurity Campaigns Index Measures

The index is a curated list of the 25 cybersecurity campaigns that broke through in 2026, published by Everything-PR. It does not publish a numeric score scale, dimension breakdown, or named publication panel. Instead, it identifies the campaign behind each ranked brand and characterizes what made the work resonate with security buyers, practitioners, and the press covering them.

Why Cloudflare Ranks #9

Cloudflare's #9 ranking is tied to one named campaign: Internet Under Attack. The index sums up the campaign in a single line: "Live dashboards turned into PR engines." In other words, Cloudflare's earned media position in 2026 came from converting operational telemetry, the real-time view of attacks moving across its network, into a public-facing communications asset that reporters and audiences could watch unfold.

That approach maps directly onto several patterns the index calls out across the full 25-brand field. The list argues that "credibility now comes from visibility, not polish," that "proof beats promise: No one believes claims anymore," and that "experience creates understanding: Seeing risk changes behavior." A live dashboard of attacks against the internet is an embodiment of all three: it shows rather than tells, it is unmediated by marketing language, and it lets an audience experience the scale of the threat environment directly.

The index also notes that "the best marketing in cyber is now teaching, not selling," and that "experience beats explanation every time." Cloudflare's dashboard-led campaign fits both framings: rather than describing the threat landscape, it puts viewers inside it.

Inside the Internet Under Attack Campaign

Cloudflare's own corporate positioning helps contextualize why a live-attack dashboard carries weight as a PR vehicle. The company states that it powers roughly 20% of the internet and 42% of the Fortune 500, with security, connectivity, and code running in more than 335 cities globally, within 50 milliseconds of 95% of the world's population. Customers cited on its own site include Shopify, Workday, Indeed, Block, Visa, Uber, Atlassian, Asana, Garmin, Mars, Telefonica, Telus, Colgate-Palmolive, L'Oreal, Labcorp, CoreWeave, and U.S. government entities including the Department of Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security.

That scale is what makes a live-traffic dashboard credible as a real-time signal about the state of the internet. The 2026 index does not enumerate metrics from the campaign itself; what it credits Cloudflare for is the format, the decision to treat operational visibility as a continuously running press release.

Where Cloudflare Sits in the Broader Cybersecurity Story

The 2026 list is topped by NordVPN at #1, CrowdStrike at #2, and Palo Alto Networks at #3, with Cisco, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Google Cloud filling the rest of the top eight. Cloudflare at #9 leads a second cluster that includes SentinelOne, Kaspersky, Check Point Software Technologies, Darktrace, Okta, and Fortinet.

Two cross-brand patterns from the index help locate Cloudflare's position inside that field. First, "trust is the product: Marketing is no longer separate from credibility, it is credibility." A live dashboard is, by definition, a continuous credibility statement: it is either accurate or it is not, and there is no marketing department standing between the data and the viewer. Second, "the best campaigns meet audiences where they already are." Reporters covering DDoS waves, nation-state activity, or internet outages can watch the activity on Cloudflare's own surface in real time, which is why the index frames the dashboards as PR engines.

The index is also explicit that "cybersecurity marketing is no longer about selling fear. It's about demonstrating control." Cloudflare's campaign, by surfacing the attacks its network is actively absorbing, is a demonstration of mitigation in progress rather than an abstract warning.

Heading into the next refresh, Cloudflare's #9 placement reflects a campaign built on a durable asset: a global network whose operational telemetry can be made public. As long as Internet Under Attack continues to function as a live feed rather than a one-time launch, the format the index credits, dashboards as PR engines, remains in market.

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