filter
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
In Computing: a piece of software that transforms data in some way, such as removing unwanted spaces from text or formats it for use in another application.
polysemousFFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017
Senses
SANS Glossary of Security Terms
A filter is used to specify which packets will or will not be used. It can be used in sniffers to determine which packets get displayed, or by firewalls to determine which packets get blocked.
Wordset Dictionary
device that removes something from whatever passes through it
Wordset Dictionary
an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
Classifications
Entity Type
Control75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- alternatephrasing
- Filter
- plural
- filters
- possessive
- filter's
- pluralpossessive
- filters'