Overview
Cloudflare Security Insights is a security scanner from Cloudflare used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
Its primary user-agent pattern is developers.cloudflare.com/security-center; related patterns include Cloudflare Security Center crawler; Security Insights.
Cloudflare Security Insights is Verified from current authoritative identity documentation reviewed on 2026-08-07. The identity type is Official Documented.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Cloudflare Security Insights should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent
developers.cloudflare.com/security-center- Aliases
- Cloudflare Security Center crawler; Security Insights
- HTTP Agent Examples
developers.cloudflare.com/security-center- Robots.txt Token
developers.cloudflare.com/security-center- Identity Type
- Official Documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `developers.cloudflare.com/security-center` to the current operator documentation and corroborate the request with operator-controlled verification signals where available; User-Agent strings alone can be spoofed.
Classification
- Type
- Security
- Kind
- Scanner
- Family
- Cloudflare
- Purpose
- security-insights
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Cloudflare Security Insights is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
- Detection Notes
- Cloudflare Security Insights traffic is primarily detected by the `developers.cloudflare.com/security-center` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Cloudflare Security Center crawler; Security Insights`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Cloudflare infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Cloudflare Security Insights has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.