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Stateful inspection

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

A firewall inspection technique that examines the claimed purpose of a communication for validity. For example, a communication claiming to respond to a request is compared to a table of outstanding requests.

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Stateful inspections
possessive
Stateful inspection's
pluralpossessive
Stateful inspections'