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Security, Risk & Compliance

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Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management is the continuous governance and operational process for discovering, validating, assessing, prioritizing, remediating, mitigating, accepting, and verifying weaknesses across technology…

Vulnerability Prioritization

Vulnerability Prioritization is the process of ordering vulnerability remediation using exploitability, active exploitation, asset importance, exposure, business impact, control strength, and remediation…

Vulnerability Scan

Vulnerability Scan is an attack or weakness pattern that automatically examines systems, applications, dependencies, or configurations for indicators of known weaknesses and…

Wallet Audit

Wallet Audit is an assurance or evaluation activity that evaluates a wallet’s code, configuration, controls, transactions, key management, and operations against defined…

Wallet Authentication

Wallet authentication verifies the identity or possession claim of a person, device, or service requesting access to a wallet interface. Authentication may…

Wallet Authorization

Wallet authorization determines whether an authenticated party, key, policy, or application may perform a specific wallet action under current conditions. Authorization governs…

Wallet Clustering

Wallet Clustering is an analytical technique that groups blockchain addresses believed to be controlled by the same entity or coordinated service using…

Wallet Freezing

Wallet Freezing is the operational restriction of withdrawals, transfers, signing, or access associated with a custodial wallet account or wallet service in…

Wallet Incident

A wallet incident is an event that compromises or disrupts wallet keys, permissions, transactions, privacy, availability, recovery, or expected security behavior. Wallet…

Wallet Privacy

Wallet Privacy is a compliance or privacy requirement that limits disclosure and correlation of a wallet user’s identity, addresses, balances, transactions, devices,…

Wallet Risk Assessment

Wallet Risk Assessment is a documented evaluation of a wallet or blockchain address using ownership, behavior, transaction exposure, sanctions, fraud, typology, geography,…

Wallet Risk Score

Wallet Risk Score is a measurable uncertainty or exposure that summarizes selected indicators associated with a blockchain address, wallet cluster, user, or…

Wallet Security

Wallet Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects wallet keys, permissions, software, transactions, recovery materials, interfaces, and users from…

Watering-Hole Attack

Watering-Hole Attack is a targeted compromise in which attackers infect or imitate a website or online resource frequently used by the intended…

Web Authentication (WebAuthn)

Web Authentication (WebAuthn) is a W3C web API that lets a relying party register and authenticate users with public-key credentials created and…

Web Security

Web Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects websites, web applications, APIs, browsers, sessions, and supporting infrastructure against unauthorized…

Webhook Audit Trail

A webhook audit trail is a chronological record of webhook creation, configuration, delivery, verification, retry, response, modification, and administrative activity. Webhook Audit…

Webhook Authentication

Webhook authentication enables a recipient to verify that a webhook request came from the expected sender under an established trust relationship. Common…

Webhook Security

Webhook Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects event delivery endpoints, messages, credentials, processing logic, and retries against forgery,…

Withdrawal Allowlist

Withdrawal Allowlist is a control that permits withdrawals only to destination addresses, bank accounts, or beneficiaries that have been explicitly approved under…

Withdrawal Security

Withdrawal Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects requests that move value out of an account, wallet, exchange, or…

Wrapped Asset Risk

Wrapped asset risk is exposure created when a token’s value and redeemability depend on custody, contracts, issuers, bridges, or representations of another…

Zero Trust Security

Zero Trust Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that assumes no implicit trust from network location or ownership and requires…