Cloudflare recently introduced new Automatic SSL/TLS settings to simplify the provider’s encryption modes for communication with origin servers. This feature offers automatic configuration, ensuring security without risking site downtime.

Automatic SSL/TLS strengthens the encryption modes between Cloudflare and origin servers by utilizing the Cloudflare SSL/TLS Recommender. This recommender automatically performs a series of requests from Cloudflare to the customer’s origin(s) with different SSL/TLS settings to determine if the backend communication can be upgraded beyond the current configuration.

What is Active Directory Certificate Services?#
Active Directory Certificate Services (“AD CS”), as defined by Microsoft is, “a Windows Server role for issuing and managing public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates used in secure communication and authentication protocols.” Some common features and services that rely on AD CS are:

The Windows Logon Process
Enterprise VPN and Wireless Networks
Email Encryption and Digital Signatures
Smart Card Authentication
As companies continue to increase the variety of technologies available within their organizations, AD CS will become more common and more necessary, especially as companies continue to host their services in the cloud. Many AWS, Azure and GCP services require certificate-based authentication to function, so it is expected that AD CS will become an increasingly prominent and required service in modern multi-cloud networks.