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Organizations can now scale threat intelligence expertise the way they scale infrastructure. Threat intelligence analysts and network defenders have long automated the ingestion of structured threat feeds to help enrich their SIEM or WAF. The harder work has always been unstructured reporting: turning a research post into indicators your tools can use, without losing the context that explains why they matter. AI skills make that work possible to automate. A skill is a set of rich, detailed instructions that captures how an experienced analyst handles one part of the job, and it runs the same way on every report. 

Threat Signals puts that process into practice at scale. It’s launching today, and we made it available to every Cloudflare account. 

Threat Signals turns open-source reporting that you choose into intelligence you can act on. Its agentic skills summarize reports, surface key context, extract and normalize indicators of compromise, and apply tags — all within a private, account-scoped dataset. The end result is a contextualized indicator stored in your account’s private Threat Intelligence dataset as a Threat Event that can instantly be applied in your WAF policy.

Starting today, we are also expanding access to Cloudforce One’s Threat Events Platform, our core threat intelligence offering, to all Cloudflare accounts for free. With this expansion, each account gets:

• API and dashboard access to Threat Signals and the ability to select one RSS feed
• A private dataset built from the RSS feed in Threat Signals, tailored to your reporting requirements and stored for up to 30 days
• API and dashboard access to Threat Events Platform to investigate events, indicators, and tags related to your private dataset

Essentials, Advantage, and Elite enterprise customers can extend this offering to include an expanded number of RSS feeds, access to Cloudforce One’s proprietary threat intelligence datasets, the ability to generate custom agentic skills, higher storage options for Threat Signals’ derived open-source reporting, and the ability to create custom WAF rules on open-source and proprietary threat events.

Discovery is only the beginning

We started with open-source intelligence because it is the most obvious place to prove the power of agentic workflows. We also heard from customers that their existing platforms cannot scale beyond polling 100 RSS feeds. Recognizing the critical impact open-source reporting plays in understanding the threat landscape, we sought to build an infinitely scalable platform (more on that later).

Researchers regularly publish detailed findings on vulnerabilities, malicious infrastructure, phishing campaigns, malware families, and threat actors. While RSS feed readers make it easier to discover new reporting, discovery is only the beginning. Harnessing data into a usable workflow with consistent expertise is the key to building actionable defense.

Expertise has never been something organizations can replicate at scale. A report explains how a campaign works and identifies the infrastructure behind it, but before an analyst can use that information, they need to:

• Read and summarize the report
• Identify relevant indicators
• Convert indicator values into a consistent format
• Classify the report using an internal taxonomy for tagging
• Populate the indicators into a threat intelligence platform (TIP)
• Preserve a link to the original source
• Share the intelligence with the rest of the security team

Repeating that process across dozens of sources takes time; moreover, almost every step is entirely about human judgment. As a result, context is lost. Indicators inserted into your TIP are separated from the context that explains why they matter and helps assess the risk later in the remediation cycle. It's not surprising that weeks later, a domain is pushed to a blocklist and nobody understands why. 

How Threat Signals works

Threat Signals uses RSS to monitor the open-source reporting that matters to your organization. You can add an RSS feed, give it a recognizable name and category, and configure how frequently Threat Signals checks for new content. All three feed specifications (RSS 2.0, Atom, and RSS 1.0/RDF) are supported.

Each feed you select enters a Workflow that periodically polls for new articles. It uses Browser Run’s Markdown quick action to fetch and clean the article text into a readable markdown format, which is then stored in R2. The text is passed into an indicator of compromise extractor and a set of default Cloudforce One-defined skills to summarize the content, apply tags based on your account configuration, and add indicator contextualization at the IOC level.

The output is a concise summary and key points that help an analyst quickly understand what happened, who was affected, and why the report matters. All of it is searchable and tagged, so you can find the articles you care about across the platform.

Lastly, each indicator extracted is backed by a threat event within the account's own private Threat Signals dataset. The event, its indicators and tags, and the original report stay connected, so an analyst can always trace where the intelligence came from and why it is there. These indicators can then be used to create WAF rules from threat events to protect your applications and infrastructure.

What we learned

It’s not hard to write a script that pulls an RSS feed and regexes IP addresses out of it. The first version of Threat Signals was a one-week internal prototype, built by a threat analyst who wanted more out of the reports she was already reading. Turning that into something every account can rely on was harder, and most of what slowed us down had nothing to do with parsing. The hard work was in making the output something analysts would trust and actually use. 

We were tempted to let the system invent whatever tags seemed useful. The teams we talked to pushed back: intelligence labeled in an unfamiliar vocabulary is harder to use, because now there are two vocabularies to reconcile. So we limited AI tagging to each account's existing tag catalog. 

Recording whether a tag was applied automatically or by an analyst sounds like a minor piece of metadata, but it turned out to be essential. In our experience, analysts were far more willing to trust automatic tagging when they could see exactly which tags it applied.

Summaries are useful, and they are what users notice first. But what analysts kept returning to in early testing was the link between an event and the report it came from. As investigations progressed, we discovered that link consistently helped them keep track of indicators and understand why each one mattered in the first place. 

What’s next

Open-source reporting isn’t limited to RSS feeds. Analysts need to be able to quickly consume threat intelligence in various formats and pipelines. Now that we’ve laid out the building blocks for ingesting indicators from data feeds into our platform, the natural next step is to add more consumers. Be on the lookout for more data ingestion pipelines that we will support so that you can bring more actionable intelligence onto the platform to protect your organization.

Open the Cloudflare dashboard and set up your feed today

The best investigations begin with trusted context, and Threat Signals helps keep that context close from the first lead onward. Threat Signals is now generally available for every Cloudflare account via API and the dashboard. Open the Cloudflare dashboard, navigate to Application Security → Threat Intelligence → Threat Signals, and add your RSS feed. The documentation is here. 

You can also read threat intelligence research from our team, and talk to your account team about putting Threat Events to work in your enterprise environment.

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