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Cloudflare and Deutsche Telekom announce European security partnership

September 29, 2026 9:04 AM

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) and Deutsche Telekom AG announced a strategic partnership aimed at expanding security and connectivity services for enterprise customers across Europe.

Under the agreement, Deutsche Telekom's enterprise subsidiary T-Systems will add Cloudflare's security and connectivity solutions to its portfolio, covering application security, network protection, and AI workload security. The two companies will also directly interconnect their networks to provide end-to-end network quality and resilience for European organizations.

Deutsche Telekom will train and certify its professionals on the Cloudflare platform, enabling it to offer consulting, implementation, and managed security services to customers from a single provider.

The partnership also includes planned collaboration on post-quantum cryptography solutions, targeting digital sovereignty requirements for European enterprises.

"By combining Cloudflare's global connectivity and security platform with Deutsche Telekom's infrastructure expertise and customer reach, we are helping organizations secure their networks, strengthen their resilience, and accelerate transformations at a global scale," said Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer of Cloudflare.

Kerstin Baumgart, Director Wholesale and Member of the Board of Management of Telekom Deutschland, said the partnership would allow customers to "benefit from the synergies of two highly complementary infrastructures."

Deutsche Telekom reported revenue of €119.1 billion in its 2025 financial year and serves more than 273 million mobile customers across more than 50 countries.

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