What is geo-blocking?

What is geo-blocking?

By John Burke, Nemertes CTO

May 16, 2023—Geo-blocking is blocking something based on its location. More specifically, geo-blocking means blocking access to a network-accessible resource based on the supposed location of the system or user seeking access to that resource. Blocking can mean network-level blocking, such as dropping IP packets, or system-level blocking, such as enabling the application to reject the access attempt or to ignore it…

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