Three reasons Obayashi USA and Cloudflare should talk.
Bring the North American web edge, authoritative DNS, and email threat protection into one control plane while preserving Microsoft 365 and supporting Obayashi's transformation goals.
Why now?
Cloudflare can bring Azure CDN, NS1 DNS, application security, and Microsoft 365 threat protection into one operating plane while leaving Obayashi's applications and productivity... Obayashi's transformation plan calls for productivity gains and re-engineered processes across a $3B+ North American operation.
The public www hostname is fronted by an Azure CDN CNAME; no cf-ray was observed during recon.
Public NS records identify NS1 as the authoritative DNS provider.
MX and SPF records identify Microsoft 365 as the mail platform; no separate email security gateway was visible in public MX records.
What to prove together
Prioritized by business impact and strength of public evidence.
Consolidate the North American web edge
CDN / Cache Rules + WAF + Bot Management + Load Balancing What Cloudflare doesPut performance, application security, traffic steering, and origin protection under one policy layer without changing the application first.
Proxy one low-risk hostname or route with the current origin preserved for rollback.
p95 latency, cache hit ratio, origin offload, blocked attacks, operating cost.
Unify authoritative DNS with the application edge
Cloudflare Authoritative DNS + DNS Firewall What Cloudflare doesReduce control-plane handoffs and manage DNS, application security, and failover from the same global network.
Import one low-risk zone, validate records, DNSSEC, and rollback before delegation.
Query latency, availability, change time, failed lookups, retired DNS cost.
Add pre-inbox protection to Microsoft 365
Cloudflare Email Security What Cloudflare doesAugment Microsoft 365 with phishing, business email compromise, and supplier-impersonation detection while leaving the mailbox platform in place.
Run a 30-day parallel evaluation for one mail domain or user cohort.
Detection lift, false positives, analyst time, mailbox cost, user-reported misses.
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