{"slug": "cloudflare-launches-design-partner-designation-to-accelerate-secure-ai-and-sase", "title": "Cloudflare Launches Design Partner Designation to Accelerate Secure AI and Seamless SASE Adoption", "summary": "Cloudflare launched its Cloudflare One Design Partner Designation to accelerate secure AI and SASE adoption, equipping select global partners with deep technical expertise. The program includes the Cloudflare One Stack framework, providing AI skills and automated workflows to simplify network migrations and support AI-era managed services.", "body_md": "# Cloudflare Launches Design Partner Designation to Accelerate Secure AI and Seamless SASE Adoption\n\n[Cloudflare, Inc.](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudflare.com%2F&esheet=54555647&newsitemid=20260617869689&lan=en-US&anchor=Cloudflare%2C+Inc.&index=1&md5=38e06af70e036afdbf1b87d5577c32a8) (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced the launch of its Cloudflare One Design Partner Designation. This new high-priority designation focuses on the [Cloudflare One](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudflare.com%2Fsase%2F&esheet=54555647&newsitemid=20260617869689&lan=en-US&anchor=Cloudflare+One&index=2&md5=cf3016ad680b416e8d5d9978747469fe) suite, equipping a select group of global partners—including Arctiq, Consortium, CMT, Presidio, and The Missing Link—with the deep technical expertise needed to accelerate secure AI innovation.\n\nMigrating away from legacy security architectures is traditionally slow and risky. Auditing existing environments, mapping out new architectures, and avoiding configuration errors during vendor transitions can create vulnerabilities. This friction can create security gaps and stall innovation. Now, businesses can confidently reduce fragmentation by turning to a trusted partner to guide them into one suite designed for secure AI.\n\n“Cloudflare One has evolved into a partner-led engine and our new Design Partner Designation is built to propel long-term growth,” said Tom Evans, Chief Partner Officer at Cloudflare. “This new framework represents our deepest channel co-investment yet. We are equipping our elite partners with the financial runway and technical mastery they want to scale the Cloudflare One platform. By blending our unified SASE architecture with partner expertise, we are turning complex network migrations into high-margin, high-value consulting opportunities for the AI era.”\n\nTo support the launch, Cloudflare is introducing the [Cloudflare One Stack](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.cloudflare.com%2Fcloudflare-one-stack%2F&esheet=54555647&newsitemid=20260617869689&lan=en-US&anchor=Cloudflare+One+Stack&index=3&md5=78c655179f0cbd2f217f34f12dee42a2). This framework provides a robust library of AI skills that security teams can use with any agent to evaluate, deploy, and manage Cloudflare One. Built directly on top of Cloudflare One, these skills provide structured knowledge, decision trees, and tool definitions that AI agents can automatically use. By giving partners access to a central repository of blueprint configurations and automated workflows, Cloudflare eliminates tedious manual provisioning. Instead, partners can focus on delivering high-margin managed services tailored for the AI era.\n\n**Cloudflare One Design Partner Testimonials**\n\n“Organizations are under increasing pressure to modernize legacy architectures, secure AI adoption, and simplify increasingly complex environments. By combining the Cloudflare One platform with Arctiq’s expertise in cybersecurity, networking, cloud, and managed services, we help clients accelerate Zero Trust and SASE initiatives while reducing complexity and improving resilience,” said Wes Brown, CTO at Arctiq. “Together, we’re helping organizations build secure, connected, and AI-ready environments that can adapt to an evolving threat landscape and support the future of business.”\n\n“This partnership represents a significant investment in our ability to serve customers navigating the AI adoption landscape, SASE shift and cloud-delivered security,” said Andrew Barnett, CTO at Consortium. “Consortium’s purpose-built dedicated Centers of Excellence are proven practices that have become one of the most recognized capabilities in our firm. With our level of rigor, expertise, and customer focus to Cloudflare, the Cloudflare One Design Partner designation gives us a foundation most partners will spend years trying to reach.”\n\n“Cloudflare’s deep co-investment in elite enablement empowers CMT Info & Comm Co., Ltd. with the advanced technical mastery needed to solve our customers’ most complex security headaches,” said Soojong Lee, Chief Technology Officer at CMT. “With integrated SASE protections that scale smoothly across web, cloud, and private application environments, we can seamlessly protect sensitive data while building the automated frameworks necessary for the AI era.”\n\n“As a Cloudflare One Design Partner, we can now help eliminate fragmented, legacy architectures, and enable our customers to innovate with AI quicker and more securely,” said Jim Finn, Sales VP of Cyber at Presidio. “With a foundational repository of agent-ready best practices—that remove rigidity and allow us to easily transform complex network migrations into high-value consulting services—we are thrilled to help create the future of enterprise security.”\n\n“Organisations are increasingly looking for ways to reduce complexity by bringing networking and security together within a single, modern architecture,” said Aaron Bailey, CISO and Director of The Missing Link. “As a Cloudflare One Design Partner, The Missing Link can help customers accelerate their Zero Trust and SASE strategies while improving security, performance, and operational efficiency. Combining Cloudflare’s platform with our cyber security and consulting expertise enables us to help organisations navigate transformation with greater confidence and resilience.”\n\nTo learn more, please check out the resources below:\n\n**About Cloudflare**\n\nCloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.\n\nPowered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.\n\nLearn more about Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud at [cloudflare.com/connectivity-cloud](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcloudflare.com%2Fconnectivity-cloud&esheet=54555647&newsitemid=20260617869689&lan=en-US&anchor=cloudflare.com%2Fconnectivity-cloud&index=6&md5=dcb705c6f11d7eea1a5efd6cb904caf3). 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