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Evidence and containment

Disprove the finding

“Adversarial review reduces noise”

Grant BourzikasChief Security Officer, Cloudflare

Cloudflare · 2026-05-18

Test the access claim

Try to falsify the candidate’s claim before escalating it as exploitable.

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A valid record is not a valid finding

“findings.json is checked mechanically for schema adherence, not correctness”

Dan Jones, Alexandra Godoi and Grant BourzikasJoint Cloudflare authors

Cloudflare · 2026-06-18

Check the evidence

Separate a well-formed scan report from evidence that an attacker can reach the flaw.

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Keep the evidence trail

“our team was able to reconstruct the attack from residual logs.”

Sourov Zaman, Craig Strubhart and Grant BourzikasJoint Cloudflare authors; Bourzikas is Chief Security Officer

Cloudflare · 2025-09-02

Reconcile the export jobs

Preserve and correlate the residual audit evidence while stopping the compromised integration.

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