Holiday Readiness 2026

Your holiday checklist has a new line item: AI agents

In 2025, Cloudflare mitigated more attacks than any year in history — 47.1 million, more than double the prior year. This holiday season, the attacks will be more agentic than ever. But so will the shopping. AI assistants are now deciding which products to recommend, which stores to trust, and which to skip. You need to block the bots that attack you and show up for the ones that sell for you.

Survive the surge

Absorb multi-terabit DDoS floods at the edge and hold peak traffic in a branded waiting room, so checkout never crashes.

Sort good bots from bad

Block scalpers, scrapers, and credential stuffing while cryptographically verifying the trusted AI agents you want.

Get recommended by AI

Make your catalog discoverable and machine-readable so agents can find, trust, and recommend you first.

See where you stand before peak season hits.

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How customers find you is changing

Take Cloudflare’s Agent Readiness Assessment to see if agents can find, read, and recommend your site — and where to fix the gaps first.

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Six moves to make before peak:

Absorb DDoS at the edge

Autonomous protection on a 500 Tbps network blocks multi-terabit floods in seconds.

DDoS Protection

Manage the surge

A branded virtual waiting room keeps checkout stable during flash sales and drops.

Waiting Room

Sort good bots from bad

ML bot scoring plus session analysis; verify trusted agents via Web Bot Auth.

Bot Management

Stop fraud without friction

Holiday-tuned rules catch abuse; Turnstile confirms real users without CAPTCHAs.

WAF + Turnstile

Secure APIs & checkout

Discover and protect every API and lock down client-side scripts against skimming.

API Shield + Page Shield

Show up for AI shoppers

Make your catalog discoverable and serve clean, machine-readable content.

Agent Readiness
Every year we see a consistent increase in threat intensity, but regular Cloudflare updates mitigate complex new threats as they come up.
Mattie Toia — VP of Infrastructure, Shopify