Content filtering

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

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The process of monitoring communications such as email and Web pages, analyzing them for suspicious content, and preventing the delivery of suspicious content to users.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

Controlling access to a network by analyzing the contents of the incoming and outgoing packets and either letting them pass or denying them based on a list of rules Scope Note: Differs from packet filtering in that it is the data in the packet that are analyzed instead of the attributes of the packet itself (e.g., source/target IP address, transmission control protocol [TCP] flags)

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Capability92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Content filterings
possessive: Content filtering's
pluralpossessive: Content filterings'

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