Cloudflare launches partner program to accelerate AI security adoption

Cloudflare’s latest step, announcing the Cloudflare One Design Partner Designation on June 17, 2026, is less about selling a product and more about building the army that sells it for them.

The new designation sits inside Cloudflare’s existing PowerUP Partner Program. Chief Partner Officer Tom Evans called it the company’s most significant channel co-investment to date.

What the program actually does

The centerpiece of the new designation is something called the Cloudflare One Stack, an AI-powered library built to help partners navigate the messy process of moving enterprise clients off legacy security architectures into Zero Trust and SASE frameworks. SASE stands for Secure Access Service Edge: a modern security architecture that treats every user, device, and connection as potentially hostile until proven otherwise, regardless of whether they’re inside or outside a corporate network.

The One Stack gives partners access to skills blueprints and pre-built workflows specifically designed to reduce what Cloudflare calls migration fragmentation, the painful, expensive process of stitching together security tools from different vendors that don’t naturally talk to each other.

Initial partners tapped for the program include Arctiq, Consortium, CMT, Presidio, and The Missing Link.

The shadow AI problem enterprises don’t want to admit they have

One of the program’s explicit targets is shadow AI. Employees across enterprises are already using AI tools, often without their IT or security teams knowing about it, sometimes on personal devices, sometimes through browser extensions, sometimes through SaaS tools that quietly added AI features to their terms of service.

Cloudflare’s pitch is that its unified Zero Trust platform can give enterprises visibility into which AI tools their employees are using and enforce policies around data leaving the organization through those tools.

Where crypto and Web3 fit into the picture

The June 17 announcement made no direct mention of cryptocurrency or blockchain. Cloudflare has previously built out Web3 gateway services for Ethereum and IPFS, and in 2025 launched the NET Dollar stablecoin for facilitating payments within agentic web environments, where AI agents transact autonomously on behalf of users.

What investors should watch

For investors tracking Cloudflare on NYSE under the ticker NET, the partner program signals a shift in go-to-market strategy toward channel partners such as Presidio, which close large, multi-year security contracts. Cloudflare’s competitive set for the same enterprise Zero Trust and SASE budgets includes Microsoft, Zscaler, and Palo Alto Networks.

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