Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
Identity threat detection and response is the capability to identify, investigate, contain, and remediate attacks that target accounts, credentials, authentication systems, privileges,…
Glossary terms starting with I
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Immutability
Immutability is the practical resistance of accepted blockchain history to later alteration. Cryptographic linking, replicated validation, consensus, and economic security make rewriting…
Immutable Backup
An immutable backup is a backup copy that cannot be altered or deleted during a defined retention period, including by ordinary administrators…
In-App Checkout
An in-app checkout is a payment flow embedded inside a mobile or desktop application rather than a separate hosted browser page. It…
In-App Crypto Payment
An in-app crypto payment is a cryptocurrency or stablecoin payment initiated from within an application for digital goods, physical products, subscriptions, account…
In-App Payment
An in-app payment is initiated and completed within a mobile, desktop, web, or platform application experience. The application can use an embedded…
In-Chat Payment
An in-chat payment is requested or initiated within a messaging conversation, support session, bot, or chat application. The transfer may complete through…
In-Game Crypto Payment
In-Game Crypto Payment is a cryptocurrency or token payment made within a game environment for access, items, currency, upgrades, or other game-related…
In-Store Crypto Payment
An in-store crypto payment is a cryptocurrency or stablecoin transaction made at a physical retail, hospitality, service, or point-of-sale location. The merchant…
Incident
An incident is an event or series of events that disrupts operations, causes harm, or violates defined security, compliance, or service expectations.…
Incident Classification
Incident classification is the consistent assignment of an event to defined categories based on its cause, affected assets, impact, data exposure, threat…
Incident Recovery
Incident recovery restores affected systems, data, services, and business processes to a trusted and sustainable state after disruption or compromise. Incident Recovery…
Incident Response
Incident response is the coordinated process for detecting, analyzing, containing, eradicating, recovering from, and learning after harmful events. Incident Response must define…
Incident Runbook
An incident runbook is a maintained set of actionable steps, decisions, roles, and evidence requirements for responding to a defined incident scenario.…
Incident Severity
Incident severity is a graded assessment of the actual or potential harm caused by an incident, commonly considering service impact, affected users,…
Independent AML Testing
Independent AML Testing is an objective evaluation of an organization’s anti-money laundering program by qualified persons who are sufficiently independent from the…
Independent Verification
Independent verification is the ability to confirm blockchain data or protocol results using one’s own node, proofs, or separately obtained evidence rather…
Indexing Node
An indexing node transforms raw blockchain blocks, transactions, events, and state into searchable datasets optimized for application queries and analytics. Unlike a…
Indirect Clearing Member
An indirect clearing member accesses a clearing system through a direct member rather than connecting and settling directly with the system operator.…
Indirect Custody
Indirect custody is an arrangement in which an organization relies on an intermediary that uses another custodian or custody layer to safeguard…
Individual Wallet
An individual wallet is a wallet assigned to and primarily controlled for one person rather than a shared organization, pooled account, or…
Inflation Risk
Inflation risk is the possibility that rising prices reduce the real purchasing power of money, returns, revenues, collateral, or future cash flows.…
Inflationary Token
An inflationary token is a token whose supply can increase through protocol issuance, mining or staking rewards, incentives, administrator minting, or scheduled…
Infrastructure as Code Security
Infrastructure as Code Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects machine-readable infrastructure definitions, pipelines, state, credentials, and deployed environments…