ISSCyberRiskCrawler

Operator

ISS-Corporate

robots.txt token

ISSCyberRiskCrawler

Follows robots.txt

No, according to ai.robots.txt.

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Other bots

What it does

Used to train machine learning based models to quantify cyber risk.

ai.robots.txt describes its function as: Scrapes data to train machine learning models.

Source: ai.robots.txt.

How to block or allow ISSCyberRiskCrawler

Add a group for its token to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To keep it out of the whole site:

User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
Disallow: /

To let it crawl everything, use an empty Disallow: or Allow: / instead. WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt that many SEO plugins let you edit. A real robots.txt file uploaded to the site root takes its place.

robots.txt is a request, so it only works on crawlers that honour it. A bot that ignores it has to be blocked at the server or firewall, by user agent or IP address.

How Vireo counts ISSCyberRiskCrawler

When a request's user agent contains ISSCyberRiskCrawler, Vireo keeps it out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Other bots, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over the bot's name.

Sources

• ai.robots.txt (MIT)