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Connect Rippling to Cloudflare Access to automate identity-based access control and keep your zero trust security policies current with your employee roster.
The Rippling–Cloudflare Access integration connects Rippling's employee identity data with Cloudflare Access's zero trust application security layer. Access policies in Cloudflare Access can be tied to identity groups sourced from Rippling, ensuring only current employees with the appropriate roles can reach protected internal applications and resources.
Cloudflare Access is popular in mid-market companies replacing traditional VPN infrastructure with a lighter-weight zero trust solution. Connecting it to Rippling means access policies enforce against the current workforce — automatically removing access for terminated employees and adjusting it for role changes.
Teams deploying Cloudflare Access often configure it initially against a static user list or manually-managed identity provider group. As the company grows, the manual updates don't keep pace with hiring and attrition — resulting in former employees retaining access to internal applications protected by Cloudflare. Connecting Cloudflare Access to Rippling's lifecycle events solves this.
thePeopleStack configures the Rippling–Cloudflare Access integration through Rippling's identity management, mapping Cloudflare Access policies to Rippling's department and role attributes. We validate access policy enforcement for a test set of applications before full rollout.
Cloudflare Access integrations for thePeopleStack's Rippling clients are built around US zero trust application security architectures.
Canadian and cross-border operations: for organizations with Canadian employees accessing internal applications through Cloudflare Access, Rippling manages their identity under the same provisioning and deprovisioning lifecycle as US employees.
Yes. Cloudflare Access integrates with Rippling through identity provider connections that keep access policies current with Rippling's employee directory and role assignments.
Cloudflare Access sits in front of internal applications and requires every access request to pass an identity check before allowing through. When identity groups come from Rippling, only current employees with matching roles can access protected resources.
Cloudflare Access is the application access component of Cloudflare's Zero Trust platform (formerly Cloudflare for Teams). The broader platform also includes Cloudflare Gateway for DNS filtering and SWG, and WARP for device-level access control.
Employee identity, email, department, and role from Rippling feed into Cloudflare Access's identity provider configuration. Department and role attributes map to Cloudflare Access policy groups that control which applications each user can reach.
Configuration takes 1–2 hours including identity provider setup and access policy group mapping.
