# Smart Shield

Safeguard your origin with just a few clicks.

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## Overview

- [Cloudflare Smart Shield](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/index.md): Use Smart Shield to protect your origin server, improve content availability, and reduce network latency.

## Get started

- [Get started](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/get-started/index.md)

## concepts

- [Connection reuse](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/concepts/connection-reuse/index.md)
- [Network diagram](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/concepts/network-diagram/index.md)

## configuration

- [Argo Smart Routing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/argo/index.md)
- [Cache Reserve](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/cache-reserve/index.md)
- [Cache Reserve analytics](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/cache-reserve/analytics/index.md)
- [Cache Reserve operations](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/cache-reserve/operations/index.md)
- [Dedicated CDN Egress IPs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/dedicated-egress-ips/index.md)
- [Connection forwarding](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/dedicated-egress-ips/how-it-works/connection-forwarding/index.md)
- [Egress IPs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/dedicated-egress-ips/how-it-works/egress-ips/index.md)
- [IPs utilization](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/dedicated-egress-ips/ips-utilization/index.md)
- [Use with other Cloudflare products](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/dedicated-egress-ips/other-products/index.md)
- [Setup](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/dedicated-egress-ips/setup/index.md)
- [Health Checks analytics](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/health-checks/analytics/index.md)
- [Manage Health Checks](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/health-checks/setup/index.md)
- [Zone Lockdown](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/health-checks/zone-lockdown/index.md)
- [Regional Tiered Cache](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/regional-tiered-cache/index.md)
- [Smart Tiered Cache](https://developers.cloudflare.com/smart-shield/configuration/smart-tiered-cache/index.md)