Access Control List (ACL)
An Access Control List (ACL) is a set of rules attached to a resource or enforcement point that specifies which users, roles,…
Security, Risk & Compliance
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Access Control Vulnerability
An access control vulnerability lets a user perform actions or reach data that the system should deny to that identity. Access Control…
Account Abstraction Risk
Account Abstraction Risk is a measurable uncertainty or exposure that arises from programmable wallet logic, bundlers, paymasters, plugins, and dependencies that expand…
Account Authentication
Account authentication verifies that a person or system attempting access legitimately controls the credentials associated with an account. Account authentication is the…
Account Security
Account Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that combines authentication, authorization, monitoring, recovery, and user practices to protect an account…
Account Takeover Fraud
Account takeover fraud occurs when an attacker gains control of a legitimate account and uses it for unauthorized transactions or identity abuse.…
Active Risk Management (ARM)
Active risk management continuously identifies, measures, treats, and monitors changing risks instead of relying only on periodic assessments. Decision-makers use Active Risk…
Adaptive Authentication
Adaptive Authentication is an authentication approach that changes verification requirements according to contextual and behavioral risk signals observed before or during access.…
Adaptor Signature
An adaptor signature is a cryptographic construction that hides a secret inside an incomplete signature and reveals it when completed. An adaptor…
Address Blacklist
Address Blacklist is a controlled list of blockchain addresses that a system is configured to reject, block, restrict, or escalate. It is…
Address Ownership Verification
Address Ownership Verification is the process of obtaining evidence that a person or organization controls or is legitimately associated with a specified…
Address Poisoning
Address Poisoning is a scam in which an attacker inserts a lookalike wallet address into a victim’s transaction history, often by sending…
Address Privacy
Address privacy is the protection of relationships between blockchain addresses, transactions, identities, balances, and activity patterns from unwanted observation. Address privacy concerns…
Address Reputation
Address Reputation is a contextual assessment of a blockchain address based on observed behavior, attribution, transaction exposure, prior incidents, and confidence in…
Address Risk Score
An address risk score estimates the likelihood that a blockchain address is associated with illicit, fraudulent, sanctioned, or otherwise risky activity. A…
Address Screening
Address Screening is the risk-based review of a blockchain address and its transaction exposure against sanctions, illicit-finance, fraud, and internal policy indicators.…
Address Validation
Address Validation is the technical check that a blockchain address is correctly formed and appropriate for the intended network, asset, and transaction…
Address Whitelist
Address Whitelist is a controlled set of blockchain addresses that are preapproved as permitted destinations for defined accounts, assets, networks, or transaction…
Admin Key Risk
Admin key risk is the possibility that a privileged cryptographic key is compromised, misused, lost, or used to change critical system behavior.…
Advance-Fee Fraud
Advance-Fee Fraud is a fraud or abuse pattern that persuades a victim to pay money or crypto upfront for a promised benefit…
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
AES is a standardized symmetric block cipher that encrypts and decrypts digital data using 128, 192, or 256-bit keys. Advanced Encryption Standard…
Adverse Media Screening
Adverse Media Screening is the risk-based search and review of credible public information that may indicate financial crime, corruption, fraud, sanctions exposure,…
Affiliate Fraud
Affiliate Fraud is a fraud or abuse pattern that manipulates referral or performance-marketing systems to claim commissions for fake, stolen, duplicated, or…
Affinity Fraud
Affinity Fraud is a fraud or abuse pattern that exploits trust within a shared community, profession, religion, ethnicity, or social group to…