Skip to content
Cloudflare Docs

Cloudforce One

Cloudforce One is a threat intelligence solution that offers threat research reports, brand protection, Request for Information (RFIs), and more.

To access Cloudforce One:

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account.
  2. Go to Security Center > Threat Intelligence.

You can also use Cloudforce One via REST API ↗.

Cloudforce One Threat Intelligence displays the following information:

  • Threat Events to analyze threat intelligence data.
  • Priority Intelligence Requirements to review and manage Cloudforce One Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs). PIRs are a structured approach to identifying intelligence gaps.
  • Requests for Information to submit specific queries and requests directly into Cloudforce One's analysis queue.
  • Reports to get the latest Cloudforce One Threat reports.

Submit RFIs

To submit RFIs (Request for Information):

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account.
  2. Go to Security Center > Threat Intelligence > Requests for Information.
  3. Select New Request.
  4. Fill in the required fields, then select Save.

List of RFI types

The Cloudflare dashboard presents the following request types when you want to configure a Cloudforce One Requests for Information:

  • Binary Analysis - IOCs: Conduct high level malware analysis to produce indicators ↗ such as a call-back domain or IP address.

  • Binary Analysis - Report: A thorough analysis of a malware sample to produce an attribution assessment and extract the configuration of the sample for further analysis. Useful for customers that are investigating a problem or trying to develop detection logic in an EDR ↗ or network sensor.

  • DDoS Attack: Confirm if an attack is happening against a specific website to share any available indicators and potential attribution.

  • Indicator Analysis - IOCs: Conduct DNS lookups, origin pivots, and account pivots to provide indicators such as DNS resolutions, origin IPs, and subdomains. Analysis can include account registration patterns and victimology.

  • Indicator Analysis - Report: A thorough analysis of indicators written in a formal, structured format. In addition to listing Indicator of compromise (IOCs) ↗, the report explains how IOCs function within the attack chain, and adds context by linking IOCs to specific campaigns and/or threat actors and their TTPs.

  • Passive DNS Resolution: Research the pair of an IP address to the domain it resolved to during a specified period of time.

  • Strategic Threat Research: Strategic Threat Research goes beyond simple indicators to analyze broader, long-term trends, threat actors, and industries — often supplemented by open-source intelligence to inform high-level management and planning rather than providing immediately actionable intelligence.

  • Threat Detection Signature - IOCs: Develop a rule such as Yara that will detect a sample, behavior, or network observable such as an IP address, domain, file hash, or attribute of a file or HTTP request.

  • Threat Detection Signature - Report: A thorough analysis report that investigates the details of a threat detection alert or report for the benefit of customers that are trying to prioritize their response effort or to attribute activity to a threat actor.

  • Traffic Analysis - IOCs: Review HTTP telemetry of IOCs in question and provide relevant, sanitized traffic which can include victim country and in some cases victim ASNs. Identify malicious files/payloads, and unusual file paths or request patterns.

  • Traffic Analysis - Report: Report that analyzes HTTP telemetry to identify patterns, anomalies, and data pointing to malicious behavior. Provides context for observed network behaviors and maps them to known TTPs of specific threat groups.

  • Vulnerability: Investigation to attribute vulnerability exploitation to a threat actor or investigation of IPs, domains, or threat actor groups exploiting the vulnerability. Response can include relevant, sanitized traffic demonstrating exploitation and identification of victim countries and industries.

Once you select Save, the dashboard will display an overview of the shared information consisting of:

  • Status: When you submit the RFI, the status is Open. Once the team accepts the RFI, the status changes to Accept. When the team commits to answer your RFI, the status changes to Complete.
  • Priority: Priority of request.
  • Request type: Choose among a selection of request types, such as DDos Attack, Passive DNS Resolution, and more.
  • Request content: The content of the request.

The Responses section allows you to add clarifying questions and comments.

To view your RFI, select Cloudforce One Requests on the sidebar, locate your RFI, then select View. From here, you can also choose to edit your existing RFI by selecting Edit.

To delete your RFI, the status must be Open. Go to the RFI you want to delete, and select Delete. On the pop-up, select Delete to confirm deletion. Once Cloudflare accepts and begins processing RFIs, you will not be able to delete RFIs.

Upload and download attachment

You can also choose to upload and download an attachment.

Under Attachments, select the file you want to upload, then select Save.

To download an attachment, select Download on the attachment.

Analyze threat events

Threat events allow you to protect your assets and respond to emerging threats.

To access and analyze threat intelligence data on the dashboard:

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account.
  2. Select Security Center > Threat Intelligence.

You can also access threat events via the API.

Cloudforce One customers have access to the following existing datasets:

  • APTs (default)
  • DDoS attacks
  • Cybercrime
  • Compromised devices
  • Residential Proxies

You can filter Threat Events by:

  • Attacker
  • Attacker Country
  • Target Country
  • Target Industry
  • TLP (Traffic Light Protocol)
  • Indicator Type
  • Kill Chain ↗
  • Tags
  • Event Category

You can also filter by Date range.

Some events will not display Target Country and Target Industry because they are unknown information. There may be situations where the attacker's information is unknown. When Cloudflare finds a new attacker, the attacker will be assigned a new name.