Gaining Access to Backdoors

Published 2020-03

While they sound malicious, backdoors— purposely programmed entry points to access the inner workings of an app, operating system, device, or network, meant for internal usage or in cases of extreme extenuating circumstances—aren’t necessarily bad.

Source

Verdict

persistedThe same trend is listed again within the publisher's next two editions (D33).

Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2021-306

Same backdoor text; the label only adds who requests access.

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

All captured fields

rank: 330
section: Security
subject: Gaining Access to Backdoors
page: 284
confidence: medium
note: Title from the contents list in the SlideShare transcript of the publisher upload; order and section from contents page numbers. Quote added 2026-10-02 from the full slide transcript of the publisher upload (SlideShare, Wayback capture of the newer page format); source_url points at the section that holds the page.