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Integrity

Inside the VantageFence Signal Stack

13 min

Layered network, behavioral, and cross-session signals we use to score suspicious paid traffic — and why we bias toward explainability over opaque scores.

Integrity products fail when they optimize for demo accuracy instead of analyst trust. We publish the “why” behind a flag alongside the score.

Signal layers

Network

ASN reputation, hosting fingerprints, geo plausibility, and TLS quirks. Fast, cheap, easy to game alone — still useful as priors.

Behavioral

Pointer entropy, scroll depth, interaction cadence. Bots can mimic moments; sustaining believable distributions across thousands of sessions is harder.

Cross-session

We look for devices hopping between unrelated campaigns with identical timing templates — classic farm tells.

ML placement

Gradient boosted models rank suspicion, but humans can override with notes. If a model cannot be explained to a marketer, it does not ship.

Adversarial reality

Every shipped rule becomes training data for attackers. We expect regression — the product is the update cadence, not a single clever filter.


John Doe

John Doe

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