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Glossary: Endpoint and Application Security

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment)

Also written: aide, aide --init, aide --check, aide --update

A free file integrity monitoring tool for Linux. It records hashes and attributes of watched files (--init), then reports added, removed or changed files (--check), such as the skimming script slipped into /srv/shop/checkout.html.

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Related terms

File integrity monitoring (FIM)