Core Entity Brief
| Entity | UK Home Office (The Secretary of State for the Home Department) |
|---|---|
| Public role | A government department with law-enforcement and counter-terrorism authority becomes an infrastructure watchpoint when public registries tie it to an ASN. The link allows monitoring of the department's digital footprint without privileged access, flagging dependency shifts and routing changes that could affect national security infrastructure. |
| Region | United Kingdom |
| Category | Digital infrastructure institution |
| Primary domain | Infrastructure |
| Signal focus | Institution Type |
| Time horizon | Quarter (30-120d) |
| Impact | Medium |
| Confidence | 0.95 |
| Evidence coverage | 4 public source references |
| Related coverage | Profile anchor article |
| Website | Public evidence pending |
| Last update | Jun 02, 2026 |
UK Home Office (The Secretary of State for the Home Department) appears in external numbering evidence for AS211015; the public assessment is bounded by that source-backed context.
What It Does
- Visible operating role: The Home Office leads UK policy on immigration, policing, counter-terrorism, fire, and passports. Within the internet infrastructure landscape, it is the registered holder of RIPE ASN AS211015, which places a national security department inside the public routing registry.
- Revenue and customer gap: No supplied evidence establishes a revenue model, customer base, or contract position; those claims need official financial or service-source support before publication.
Operating Snapshot
- Identity baseline: The UK Home Office is a ministerial department of the UK Government, legally styled as 'The Secretary of State for the Home Department'.
- Routing context: No active prefix sample is present; the public assessment is limited to ASN identity until routing evidence changes.
Control Surface
- Registry records: Observable surfaces include the RIPE RDAP entry for AS211015 (handle ORG-UHOT1-RIPE), the Hurricane Electric BGP toolkit, and RIPEstat.
- Evidence changes: New announcements, withdrawals, or reassigned prefixes attached to AS211015 can change how much operational significance readers should assign.
Watchpoints
- Record freshness: Stale, conflicting, or changed public records are the main uncertainty when translating source evidence into an operating profile.
- Footprint change: New ASN, prefix, official website, PeeringDB, or registry evidence would raise or lower the infrastructure relevance of UK Home Office (The Secretary of State for the Home Department).

