Inspection

Definitions

1. The examination of traffic, files, requests, or system behavior by a security control to decide whether activity is safe, suspicious, or disallowed. Inspection can be shallow, such as header checks, or deep enough to parse content and protocol semantics.

   In plain English: Security checking of data or activity to decide whether it is acceptable.

   Example: "TLS decryption was required before the gateway could perform meaningful inspection of outbound traffic."

Related Terms

• Anti-Phishing
• Data Protection
• File Scanner
• Header Analysis
• Internal Audit
• IT Governance
• Multi-Layered Defense
• Operational Risk
• Policy Enforcement
• Preventative Control
• Process Security
• Program Security
• Protection Level
• Protection Mechanism
• Risk Control
• Risk Mitigation