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Three reasons Exponent and Cloudflare should talk.

Point of view

Unify application delivery, email protection, DNS, and client-side security, beginning with a measured application-edge pilot.

Why Cloudflare?
Why now?

Cloudflare provides a clear consolidation path across Fastly, Proofpoint, Route 53, and client-side media services, beginning with a measurable application-edge migration and... Exponent's 949 technical professionals handle sensitive client, employee, personal, and health information across 90+ disciplines.

DNS / HTTP recon

Fastly appears consistently across CNAME, response headers, and address ownership.

DNS / HTTP recon

Exponent's inbound MX records point to Proofpoint, and the FY2025 10-K reports 1,212 employees.

DNS / HTTP recon

All observed authoritative nameservers are Amazon Route 53 awsdns hosts.

Three highest-impact use cases

What to prove together

Prioritized by business impact and strength of public evidence.

01 Business outcome

Unify application delivery and security

Cloudflare CDN + WAF + Bot Management + DDoS Protection What Cloudflare does

A controlled hostname pilot can compare cache performance and origin offload while adding integrated application security on the same edge.

Bounded pilot

Proxy one low-risk hostname or route with the current origin preserved for rollback.

Measure

p95 latency, cache hit ratio, origin offload, blocked attacks, operating cost.

02 Business outcome

Evaluate integrated email security

Cloudflare Email Security + DMARC Management What Cloudflare does

Proofpoint is a publicly visible consolidation target; Cloudflare can combine inbound protection, BEC defense, and sender-domain controls.

Bounded pilot

Run a 30-day parallel evaluation for one mail domain or user cohort.

Measure

Detection lift, false positives, analyst time, mailbox cost, user-reported misses.

03 Business outcome

Bring Route 53 DNS into the same control plane

Cloudflare Authoritative DNS + DNSSEC What Cloudflare does

DNS migration can simplify vendor ownership and align zone changes, security policy, and application cutovers with the Cloudflare edge.

Bounded pilot

Import one low-risk zone, validate records, DNSSEC, and rollback before delegation.

Measure

Query latency, availability, change time, failed lookups, retired DNS cost.

Discover
Prove
Scale
01
30-day DiscoverCollect Fastly service commitments, traffic, cache, and security baselines; Move a low-risk hostname through Cloudflare
02
60-day ProveRun Proofpoint and Cloudflare Email Security in comparative evaluation; Validate mailbox economics with actual counts
03
Scale by evidenceEnable Page Shield in monitor mode; Pilot selected expert videos on Stream
Compact value model
BaselineCurrent vendor run-rate + egress/compute + operating hours.
ValueRetired overlap + avoided load/incidents + hours returned.
DecisionAnnualized pilot delta - Cloudflare run-rate - one-time migration cost.
Cloudflare
overview
ProtectWAF, DDoS, bot, API and email security
AccelerateCDN, DNS, load balancing and smart routing
ConnectZero Trust, private access and secure networking
BuildWorkers, R2, AI and developer services