Case Study
Simplifying Data Compliance During Digital Transformation
An executive eBook from Cloudflare examining how organizations can govern and protect sensitive data across multi-cloud, hybrid, and AI-driven environments. It details three core capabilities, shadow IT and API detection, data localization without latency tradeoffs, and security consolidation, supported by real-world enterprise case studies. Discover three practical capabilities, shadow IT and API detection, tradeoff-free data localization, and ongoing security consolidation, to govern and protect corporate data at scale.
- Topic
- Security
- Published
- 12 Nov 2026
Digital transformation, multi-cloud adoption, hybrid work, and surging generative AI usage have dispersed corporate data across complex, hard-to-monitor environments. Coupled with rapidly shifting global privacy laws across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, as well as operational resilience mandates like DORA, 50% of IT leaders report feeling only somewhat prepared to manage regulatory compliance effectively.
This Cloudflare eBook outlines three practical architectural capabilities to streamline governance without slowing innovation: automating shadow IT and API discovery, enforcing regional data locality without sacrificing application performance, and consolidating fragmented security tools. Drawing on deployments from Indeed, Doctolib, and Temple & Webster, the guide illustrates how unifying security and connectivity on a single control plane boosts security team efficiency by 35%, cuts breach risk by 24%, and reduces licensing costs by 20%.
Key Highlights:
Enterprise Compliance Preparedness Gap: Half (50%) of IT leaders surveyed by IDC feel only "somewhat prepared" to handle regulatory compliance amid multi-cloud and AI sprawl.
Global Regulatory Acceleration: Shifting US-EU data transfer frameworks, amended privacy laws across APAC (including India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea), and resiliency mandates like DORA complicate global governance.
Automated Shadow IT & API Discovery: Machine-learning-powered API gateways and Secure Web Gateways uncover unknown API schemas, unvetted customer-facing AI models, and unsanctioned employee SaaS usage.
Nuanced Shadow AI Governance: Rather than relying solely on blunt site blocking that drives employee workarounds, enterprises can enforce Remote Browser Isolation and DLP policies to prevent data exfiltration.
How Indeed Governs Shadow AI: Serving over 350 million customers, Indeed deployed Cloudflare SASE (Secure Web Gateway and Zero Trust Network Access) to block unsanctioned AI chatbots, enforce least-privilege access, and eliminate legacy VPN outages.
Data Localization Without Performance Tradeoffs: Disaggregating security inspection and key storage from physical infrastructure allows organizations to satisfy GDPR and NIS2 residency rules without sacrificing global network speed.
How Doctolib Scales Under EU Data Locality: Doctolib handles up to 10x traffic surges across 90 million patients by keeping traffic decryption and inspection inside EU data centers while maintaining global DDoS mitigation.
Ongoing Security Stack Consolidation: Maintaining a service consolidation tracker, prioritizing mature business applications, and automating policy updates reduces operational overhead and speeds up audit readiness.
How Temple & Webster Accelerated ISO/IEC 27001: By replacing legacy VPNs and fragmented Layer 7 tools with Cloudflare ZTNA, WAF, and Bot Management, Temple & Webster reduced workforce access administration time by 50%.
Post-Quantum & Multi-Framework Readiness: Built-in encryption, including protections against future quantum decryption, supports compliance across PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, NIS2, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001, 27018, and 27701.
Measurable Efficiency & Cost Gains: Organizations standardizing data compliance on Cloudflare achieve a 35% boost in security team efficiency, a 24% reduction in breach risk, and 20% license fee savings from service consolidation.