IP Geolocation

Noun · Security & Infosec

Definitions

  1. The mapping of an IP address to an estimated geographic location using registry, routing, provider, and commercial data sources. In security, IP geolocation supports anomaly detection, conditional access, and fraud scoring, but its accuracy varies widely.

    In plain English: Estimating where an IP address is located geographically.

    Example: "IP geolocation flagged the session as foreign, but the user was actually on a cloud-hosted VPN exit node."

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