Autonomous system
AS13448 WEBSENSE
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Forcepoint
enterprise business measurement
The handle still says Websense, the netnames say Forcepoint, and one of them says security research.
What it's used for
- A security software company's network. 1,280 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes, the IPv6 block
2620:12c:b018::/48, and six observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle is
WEBSENSEwhile the registry holder is the renamed company. 204.15.64.0/23is netnameFORCEPOINT-CORP1.208.80.196.0/24is netnameFORCEPOINT-SECURITY-RESEARCH.- Two /24s share netname
Forcepoint_Security_Solutions_Limited, using underscores rather than hyphens. - First seen in the routing archive on 2005-07-29, an actual date rather than the archive's start.
- Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A netname declaring a block as security research space is a courtesy to everyone else. Traffic from a company that scans and classifies the web looks like probing, and saying so in the registry is where an analyst checks before deciding what they are seeing.
- Underscores in a netname mean a different registry with different rules, so the two /24s were created somewhere other than where the rest were.
- Separating corporate space from research space in the naming means the two are meant to be judged differently when they show up in someone's logs.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
6 upstream, 0 downstream and 6 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13448- Registry name
- WEBSENSE
- Registrant
- Forcepoint LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@forcepoint.com
- Registered
- 2005-07-05
- Last changed
- 2026-03-23
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 40% valid · 2 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS13448
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 60% registered · 3 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 29 naming AS13448
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere