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Major Cloud or CDN Infrastructure

It indicates that the ASN belongs to a clearly identified regulated network category such as major cloud/CDN providers, government infrastructure, or academic and research networks.

Also surfaces as:
Government or Public Sector NetworkAcademic or Research Network
Analyst Q&A

What this signal answers

The questions every analyst asks before acting on this signal.

What it detects01

What does the 'Legally Regulated Network Environment' signal indicate?

It indicates that the ASN belongs to a clearly identified regulated network category such as major cloud/CDN providers, government infrastructure, or academic and research networks.

Why it matters02

Why are only specific network types included?

Only network types with strong, verifiable ownership and governance signals are included to maintain high precision and avoid introducing ambiguous or weak safe bias into risk scoring.

How analysts use it03

How should SOC analysts interpret this indicator?

This is a high-confidence safe-bias context signal. It does not override malicious evidence, but it helps analysts quickly recognize traffic originating from well-known and regulated network environments.

Evidence shape

What Major Cloud or CDN Infrastructure looks like in the response

A realistic shape of the entry the engine appends to the risk_signals array when this signal fires. Evidence keys are subgroup-default; per-signal overrides documented in the API reference.

json
{
  "slug": "asn_known_legal_network",
  "name": "Major Cloud or CDN Infrastructure",
  "group": "dns_history",
  "subgroup": "asn_infrastructure_profile",
  "direction": "safe",
  "evidence": {
    "asn": "AS13335",
    "asn_org": "Cloudflare, Inc.",
    "asn_allocation_year": 2010,
    "asn_geo_risk": "low",
    "hosted_domain_count": 18420315
  }
}
See in API reference
Siblings

Peers in ASN Infrastructure Profile

13 other signals share the same subgroup. They detect related behaviors and often co-fire on the same IOC.

Low-Control General Hosting Network

It indicates that the ASN belongs to hosting environments statistically associated with higher abuse rates, weak onboard…

MaliciousCore
Malicious Infrastructure Observed in ASN

It indicates that domains hosted under this ASN have been involved in malware distribution, payload hosting, or command-…

MaliciousCore
ASN Allocated Long Time Ago

It means that the ASN was allocated many years ago and has a long operational history. Older ASNs tend to be more stable…

Safe
Geolocation Mismatch or High-Risk Region

It indicates that the ASN shows geolocation anomalies, such as a mismatch between registry country and observed country …

Malicious
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